Surprising Quotes

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 still surprising people.

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

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

My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.

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 certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

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

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.