Quotes About Surprising

The speed was incredible. She had never ridden so fast in her life. You didn't expect this, did you? "No, I didn't," she replied, shocked to find that she was talking to her horse—and, even more surprising, her horse had seemed to talk to her.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

That would explain the pigs I saw flying over frozen Hell this morning,

There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

Where what is known is so surprising and where what is unknown is so extensive, almost anything can be surmised

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

Is that so surprising, that you should be desirable?

It was a smooth voice, androgynous, and cultured, unexpected.

I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen.

Russell made a comment to Charlotte about how she struck him as being really kind of healthy, in an emotional way, which wasn't completely surprising -- she knew she was fairly adroit at making people think she had it going on in that way (which gets into another whole thing about whether that was really a useful trait, which in fact she was pretty sure it wasn't, considering that maybe she could actually get some help from people, if she were willing to admit she needed any).

the overwhelming majority of civilized, decent people would not have agreed: Indeed, they would have found such notions surprising. Before the eighteenth century, and especially before the dramatic revolutions with which it closed, most Europeans would have viewed the principle of free labor as surprising, if not alarming.

With a commander in chief handing out a general license to hunt for spies, it's not surprising Americans responded.

If grace isn't shocking and countercultural and scandalous and a little ridiculous, then it's not Grace.

I swam for the county when I was 12. You wouldn't think it to look at me now, but I'm as graceful as a seal.

It's often the guests you don't expect to be interesting who are the best. On 'Light Lunch,' I remember a guest called Ivor Spencer. He was the Royal Toastmaster and he was great, a real good-time guy.

The Locust Effect then is the surprising story of how a plague of lawless violence is destroying two dreams that the world deeply cherishes: the dream to end global poverty and to secure the most fundamental human rights for the poor.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

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, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?'

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.

You know, you might not think that Wigglytuff can, like, throw a thunder or lightning-type move at you. But, oh, just you watch.