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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.
— Emeraude Toubia
People, even those closest to you, are surprising...Nobody is everything they seem.
— Deborah Rodriguez
It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.
— John Flanagan
If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.
— Rodney Brooks
It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.
— R.L. LaFevers
I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.
— Aubrey Plaza
Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.
— Amit Kalantri
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
— Oswald Chambers
He thought I'd be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I'd consistently fallen short of expectations.
— Gillian Flynn
Everything is surprising, rightly seen.
— A.S. Byatt
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
— John Edensor Littlewood
You see so many surprising things and you think they're obvious.
— Courtney Milan
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
— Brian F. O'Byrne
Life has a way of turning around and surprising you!
— Anuranjita Kumar
Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.
— James Arthur Ray
surprising as it was within touching
— Zara Stoneley
It's sometimes surprising how people can open up when you demonstrate a willingness to listen to their stories with attentiveness and respect.
— Kevin Fedarko
We often discover only many years later whether life and the stars were smiling upon us or not. Life can take the most surprising turns. What
— Jan-Philipp Sendker
He's like a cookie; rough around the edges, soft on the inside. He's such a surprising guy.
— Delia Delaney
The opportunity to die was everywhere, and it just wasn't surprising when that opportunity became an event.
— Steven Galloway
That even within its ugliness, there lay a surprising beauty, breathtaking because it was so unexpected.
— Justina Chen
What'll be your biography? "At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert your name) did a surprising thing...
— Richard Bach
Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.
— Matt Ridley
Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.
— Tim Blake Nelson
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
— Andrew Sullivan
When we're not looking seems to be the time when God finds the most delight in surprising us
— Mona Hodgson
God usually answers questions different than the way we want him to. He's predictably unpredictable. Always the same at surprising us.
— Jessiqua Wittman
Everything was tied together with thin threads of fate, and when one loosened or tightened it was surprising how impactful it could be.
— Jay Crownover
He was constantly surprising me like that. I had thought I didn't like surprises, but I found I did when they came from him.
— Malorie Blackman
The challenge for all of us in this day and age is to distinguish between the merely surprising and the truly amazing.
— Jessica Zafra
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
— Voltaire
Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.
— Alice Lowe
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
— David Hume
This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity an out-and-out favorite of mine. — Diana Kennedy
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
— George Santayana
What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.
— Patrick Hennessey
Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.
— Michael Pollan
It's not that I enjoy surprising everyone I know; it's more that I almost never know where I'm going before I actually get there.
— Seanan McGuire
I was just a kid, Thomas said, surprising himself.
— James Dashner
Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!
— John Templeton
I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
— Rachel Tucker
Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.
— Amit Kalantri
Oh ... and Bacon Surprise.'REALLY? WHAT IS SO SURPRISING ABOUT BACON?
'I don't know. I suppose it comes as something of a shock to the pig. — Terry Pratchett
Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.
— Mary Pipher
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.
— Murray Walker
We've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested.
— Alain De Botton
I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.
— Marjane Satrapi
We just try to go from day to day. Surprising where you can end up, that way.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
That would be the most surprising lesson I'd learn at Bradley: You only scream when you're finally safe.
— Jessica Knoll
I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.
— Brendon Urie
The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.
— Susan Cain
You have to keep surprising your audience.
— Shane Black
Success and failure are equally surprising.
— Daryl Hall
To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.
— Elizabeth Hickey
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
— Jean Cocteau
I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.
— David Nevins
My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.
— Michael Leunig
You're a girl?""Surprising, I know. Everyone thinks I'm older. — Sarah J. Maas
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
— Rudy Rucker
I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ... "It's so surprising to me.
— Winona Ryder
The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel.
— Mark Schaefer
I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.
— David Letterman
You're ... a demon hunter?''It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved. — Maureen Johnson
Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.
— Carl Sagan
Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.
— Mira Grant
Man is a social being; it's not surprising we love social proofs, it sells brands fast
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Be sensational, be surprising, and be remarkable. Activate your star power!
— Catrice M. Jackson
Chemistry could sparkle in z most surprising places and between z most unlikely people.
— Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.
— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
— Ellsworth Huntington
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
It's ever surprising, the things that don't change.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
