Surprised Quotes

• People would be surprised if they knew how shitty my recording situation has been over the years. It took a lot of work to make the music sound ok. Having space where you can't be heard is more important than not being able to hear. If you can't be heard you feel more free when you work.

  

  Einar Selvik
  • Work
  • Music
  • Recording

• 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

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

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Day
  • Surprised

• 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

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

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Records
  • Surprised
  • Debts

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Revolutionary
  • Surprised
  • Gender Trouble

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I was surprised at how much general fear and anxiety lurked inside me these days. I'd never been a fearful person, never even understood phobias like fear of heights of water or snakes or any of those things. And while I knew that my coming out as a transgender person was going to throw certain people for a loop, I somehow hadn't realized how much it would throw me.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Anxiety
  • Phobias
  • Loop

• 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

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

  

  Bob Lewis
  • Surprised
  • Bowlers

• 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

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

  

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

• Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it’s a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical.

  

  Amy Arbus
  • Surprised
  • Magical
  • Photo Session

• I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Surprised
  • Revelation
  • God`s way

• I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.

  

  Michael Wadleigh
  • Think
  • Comparison
  • Covers

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

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Capacity
  • Surprised

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