Surprising Quotes

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

  

  Renee Fleming
  • America
  • Surprising

• I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).

  

  Kishore Kumar
  • World
  • Friends
  • Childhood

• Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Life
  • Hearts
  • Egos

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • World
  • Surprising
  • Extent

• Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Food
  • Traditional
  • Travelling

• It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Future
  • Unknown
  • Sort

• I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.

  

  Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol
  • Darkness
  • Factors
  • Surprising

• Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Fans
  • Critics
  • Surprising

• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  

  Kathryn Stripling Byer
  • Girl
  • Mystery
  • State

• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  

  Plutarch
  • Storms
  • Noises
  • Truffles

• I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. It's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Girl
  • I Think

• At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.

  

  Niccolò Paganini
  • Directing
  • Variations
  • Publicly

• Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Sex

• What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Allowed
  • Delightful
  • Spectators

• I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Actor
  • I Love
  • Surprising

• I love playing music as much as if not more so than I did when I was 19; that compared to most of my peers is pretty surprising. I wake up every day and get really excited about doing stuff that I have been doing for the last 30 years. I just love it.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • I Love
  • Surprising
  • Playing Music

• When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

  

  William Osler
  • Circumstances
  • Planning
  • Fit

• It's surprising to me how much has happened in such a short length of time.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Time
  • Happened
  • Surprising

• Who I really am keeps surprising me.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Surprising

• Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Death
  • Company
  • Surprising

• With the red line removed, ... those two will be able to play with the puck and make surprising passes.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Play
  • Red
  • Line

• It's a bit surprising that all the witnesses that could have said a nice thing about my administration, they weren't invited (to testify).

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Administration
  • Surprising
  • Witnesses

• I'd like to think I'm ambitious, and I like proving people wrong and surprising people.

  

  Bayley
  • Ambitious
  • Surprising
  • Proving

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