Quotes About Surprising

You never know with Punk. He is definitely somebody who does things his own way, and I think the biggest thing is that you can never count out what his next move will be. I think no one would have predicted his move to UFC - nobody would have predicted a lot of things he does - so whatever he chooses to do, he will do what feels best in the moment.

That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny.

That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary...

The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second.

Her large mouth moved so close in front of me in surprising but natural shapes.

I never in my wildest dreams thought that I'd have merchandise selling on a web site. It's just amazing to me.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

Women are like wine: strong, spirited, full bodied, intoxicating, and potent. And we never cease to surprise.

I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

You know, Brady, you ended up surprising me. I gotta say, I never thought I'd be having a conversation like this with you. All touchy-feely and honest." Dan grinned. "I love you, too, Jack," he said. *

It's like being hit up the arse by a rainbow.

You don't see a fish in a chair often.

A double life is not surprising: it's almost inevitable with intelligent women of Dickinson's homebound generation.

He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.

Perhaps this was the most surprising thing about Alan Turing. Despite all he had done in the war, and all the struggles with stupidity, he still did not think of intellectuals or scientists as forming a superior class.

I believe they taught me as much about the infinite capacity of things to be surprising—and a great deal about the power of beauty.

Life, it's so unlikely," she said, then turned to me again. "It's so much better than we think it is, isn't it?

If my decision to have a second cup of coffee this morning was due to a random release of neurotransmitters, how could the indeterminacy of the initiating event count as the free exercise of my will? Chance occurrences are by definition ones for which I can claim no responsibility. And if certain of my behaviors are truly the result of chance, they should be surprising even to me. How would neurological ambushes of this kind make me free?

You're very comforting, I don't know why. You're like a very small casserole – has anyone ever told you that?

Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things.

As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

First, take a deep breath. Assume Shakespeare's account is accurate and Julius Caesar gasped "You too, Brutus" before breathing his last. What are the chances you just inhaled a molecule which Caesar exhaled in his dying breath? The surprising answer is that, with probability better than 99 percent, you did just inhale such a molecule.