Quotes About Surprise

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.

Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.

Ever since I got a job in Imogen Heap's touring band when I was 17, there have been moments in my career that I can't quite believe really happened.

We surprised ourselves in '84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn't yet until we won the gold medal.

People always look shocked when I tell them the Cincinnati Open is one of my favorite tournaments.

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

A thing hard to track is Fortune.

You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.

As a fan of pop music myself, I hate discovering that a favourite track has a completely different meaning from the one I thought.

I honestly felt someone was having me on when they were like, 'Drake wants you on this track.'

'Tim Timtya' was different from what I usually do. I had to develop a texture to go with the song. In fact, many told me I sounded like Shreya Goshal, which came as a pleasant surprise. Transitioning from tracks like 'Sunny Sunny' to this one was quite different.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

I wasn't expecting to be traded, so it definitely was a surprise to me. But things happen in this league so I just decided to take in stride and start a new journey in Milwaukee.

It's fun to see all the trades. Unless it's you.

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.