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Quotes About Surprising

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Though I found this information surprising, this being the Father of Medicine we are talking about, I did not question it. You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C. Path. (Lond.), F.F. Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G." Who knows, perhaps history erred in bestowing upon Hippocrates the title Father of Medicine.
~ Mary Roach
It was all so crazy... as weird as finding out that someone had written a book about my life or something.
~ Maureen Johnson
So few American novels have happy endings. Perhaps this is not surprising in a nation whose declaration of independence provides its citizens not with the right to happiness, but the right to its pursuit.
~ Azar Nafisi
Tonight, however, the impossible was selling cheap.
~ Stephen King
Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary
~ Stephen Taylor
When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.
~ Steven D. Levitt
The tradition of the commonplace book contains a central tension between order and chaos, between the desire for methodical arrangement, and the desire for surprising new links of association.
~ Steven Johnson
nonstate conflicts kill far fewer people than conflicts that involve a government, perhaps a quarter as many. Again, this is not surprising, since goverments almost by definition are in the violence business.
~ Steven Pinker
Language is a lever with which we can convey surprising facts, weird new ideas, unwelcome news, and other thoughts that a listener may be unprepared for.
~ Steven Pinker
at the other end of the shelf, the ubiquity of metaphor in everyday language is truly a surprising discovery, rich with implications. Even the killjoy has to admit that metaphors were alive in the minds of the original coiners and compelling to the early adopters.
~ Steven Pinker
Improbable things happen a lot.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
No one could have predicted that a defenseless, slow-moving biped should become the pinnacle of Creation.
~ Ernst W. Mayr
I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.
~ Blake Mycoskie
Babymetal's music is kind of - no one else creates this kind of music. When Babymetal first started, we wanted to give the impression of like, 'What the heck?!'
~ Suzuka Nakamoto
NOTE TO SELF: Humans tend to pop up where you least expect them-and some of them have whistles.
~ Betty G. Birney
The best non-conformists are the ones you would never suspect.
~ Bill Beham
Miley is crazy, and a lot of the things she does are things that should not make any sense to be in houses. And a lot of times when you first hear what she's going to do, we're like, 'Oh gosh.' And then you see it, and you're like 'Wow, that is really, really cool.'
~ Brandi Cyrus
She had also reacted by, what, running away? Did that make sense? She had run so quickly and haphazardly, barely contacting him and the school and, most surprising of all, just leaving the boys in the lurch. That
~ Harlan Coben
'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.
~ Dean Devlin
I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.
~ Mayer Hawthorne
Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason - a young player - it's surprising.
~ Jon Gruden
You might be surprised at the strength of the fragile. And for some people it is ordinary life that is most challenging, not so much the extraordinary.
~ Sherry Thomas
WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!
~ Beatrix Potter