Surprising Quotes

507 Surprising quotes by 449 unique authors

I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a… — Brittany Snow
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all… — Neil Gaiman
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising. — R L Stine
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy. — Rebecca Solnit
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm… — Bobby Vinton
In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because… — George Gilder
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks… — Paul McGann
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't… — Gerhard Richter
Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to carry… — Gerhard Richter
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against… — Charles Darwin
A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the… — William Rehnquist
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are… — Guy Debord
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the… — John Harvey-Jones
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web… — Larry Wall
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of… — James Fenton
I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising. — Bryan Clay
The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about… — Diane Cilento
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces,… — Elliott Carter
It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious,… — Stanley Donen
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring?… — Gilles Duceppe
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's… — Jonathan Franzen
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or… — Lisa Edelstein
I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my… — Will Forte
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival… — Antonia Fraser
As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching… — Charles Darwin

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