Surprise Me Quotes - Page 5

• I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

  Ben Kingsley

  Waiting, Scripts, Honest

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• I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

  James Lovelock

  Nuclear, Campaigns, Surprise

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• What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

  Rick Warren

  Want, Surprise, Should

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Nov 01, 2015

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• When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Believe, People, Worry

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.85, Penguin

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• I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

  James Denton

  Men, Stories, Saws

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• The public interest always surprises me. I come to work in these rooms with no windows. At night I go home. I just live my life. I guess I just don't think much about whether people are going to watch. Most of my friends don't know much about what I do, and we don't talk about it. I have a different life away from work. Which is fine, because my work can get pretty intense.

  Dave Goelz

  Home, Night, Thinking

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• What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

  Rita Hayworth

  Succeed, Surprise, Failing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Teaching, Understanding

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.76, Penguin

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• Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al Qaeda, that there would be some Al Qaeda there or that Saddam Hussein might even be, you know, discussing gee, I wonder since I don’t have any scuds and since the Americans are coming at me, I wonder if I could take advantage of Al Qaeda? How would I do it? Is it worth the risk? What could they do for me?

  Wesley Clark

  Talking, Iraq, Risk

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• It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Girl, Surprise, Capable

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• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Distance, Epic, Intelligent

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me,
  Loungin, between two pillars of ivory.
  I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece.
  My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.

  Killah Priest

  Rap, Two, Ivory

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• May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Men, Presidential

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1993). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Writing, Character

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• I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

  Andrew Cuomo

  Government, Surprise

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• To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Real, Wife, Choices

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• Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.

  Cesar Luis Menotti

  Letting Go, Football, Player

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• It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Cities, People

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• It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

  Po Bronson

  Choices, Surprise

  Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.21, Random House

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• The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.

  Frances E. Willard

  Heart, Two, Support

  Frances E. Willard (2016). “Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.695, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.

  John Waters

  Kids, Feelings, Delight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  Adam Braun

  Office Space, Mean, School

  "Three Months Later - Learnings from the Greg Mortensen Controversy" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2011.

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• Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.

  Giovanna Cau

  Giving, Interviews, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in a song that, were anybody else performing it, they would have no idea it was even there.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Moving, Ideas

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

  Arsene Wenger

  League, Surprise, Unbeaten

  "The Best of the Season". www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2003.

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