Surprised Quotes

• I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

  

  Michael Giles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Never

• I'm so proud of you! I gushed, a statement I've only recently come to realize can be a backhanded compliment, insinuating that the person you're proud of has had to overcome some character flaw to do whatevre they've done to make you proud, so what you're really saying is not that you're proud, but that you're suprised the person has made you proud.

  

  Bernard Cooper
  • Character
  • Proud
  • Surprised

• I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.

  

  Katie Dippold
  • Childhood
  • Therapy
  • Sent

• To tell you the truth, the nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame totally surprised me. I had no idea that was coming. I know a lot of people like to say it's enough just to be nominated. But I've been nominated for so many things, I'd like to get this one. I think it's a long shot, considering I never had a No. 1 rock n' roll record.

  

  John Prine
  • Truth
  • Considering
  • Nomination

• I'd be pretty surprised now if anyone had any cause to go to the courts. I think the AFL have worked the tribunal to the stage where it almost becomes court-proof.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Surprised
  • Courts
  • Tribunal

• It never occurs to Arnold that the ball won't go in the hole, but I'm always surprised when it does.

  

  Gene Littler
  • Always
  • Surprised
  • Occurs

• A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Day
  • Surprised

• I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Capacity
  • Surprised

• People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Songs
  • Writers

• Some people are really surprised that I can sing different ways.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • People
  • Different
  • Sing

• We were surprised any bowlers still bowled at the bowling alley.

  

  Bob Lewis
  • Surprised
  • Bowlers

• I think it's getting a little ridiculous, to tell you the truth. We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it more than anything. ... I'm very surprised about the attitude and stuff that's happening. It seems like the willingness to go out there and give it all you've got to win is just not there.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Playing

• I'm very surprised about the stuff that's happening and the attitudes. I just can't understand why it seems the willingness to go out there and give it all you got and win is just not there.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Win
  • Willingness
  • Attitudes

• There was no woodsy fragrance blowing through my room, and the snail, especially while it lived in the pot of violets, must have been surprised by the kaleidoscope of unfamiliar smells, the scent of humans, human food, tea, soap, paper, and ink.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Food
  • Humans
  • Fragrance

• Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Work
  • Different
  • Experience

• My ex-girlfriend said to me, 'I'm surprised at how normal you are since you were homeschooled.' But I was only homeschooled because I wanted to be an actor. My parents are both teachers.

  

  Reece Thompson
  • Actor
  • Wanted
  • Girlfriend

• I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

  

  Ray Comfort
  • Surprised
  • Anyone
  • Profess

• I feel like in our society there is definitely still a lot of underlying sexism. It's funny how many guys are surprised when you pick up an instrument in the studio, or write your own songs.

  

  Nina Nesbitt
  • Society
  • Surprised
  • Sexism

• I surprised my dad with a car for his birthday a couple of years ago, a BMW wrapped in ribbon, Jacki did that to me last Christmas. We had a party at our house and I was upstairs playing mixes of the album for Joey Allen and Rudy Sarzo. Jacki says there's kids fighting in the driveway, and I go outside and there's a Corvette with a bow around it. Everyone knew about it but me.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • House
  • Fighting
  • Christmas

• Your courage in the grove surprised me. Surprise is a reaction I had all but forgotten. I have seen enough that I alway know what to expect. I assess the odds of various outcomes, and me predictions are never thwarted. before you were finished confronting the revenant, the potion failed. I saw the artificial bravado leave you. Your demise was certain. Yet, despite my certainty, you removed the nail. Had you been full-grown, a seasoned hero of legendary renown, well-trained, armed with charms and talismans, I would have been deeply impressed. But for a mere boy to preform such a feat? I was truly surprised.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Courage
  • Forgotten
  • Predictions

• Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Ignored
  • Calls
  • Replies

• I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • First
  • Images
  • Surprised

• You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Difficult
  • Surprised
  • Cellphone

• You'd be surprised how many records we've had to sell to pay our debts.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Records
  • Surprised
  • Debts

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