I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.
When you know yourself you are surprised that what is the greatest thing for you is to love and to be loved.
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.
I also think if you get sort of early success there's always this part of you which feels like, "I need to address the imbalance, I need to kind of earn that success after the fact". I try to find roles that are hard and also, I still find now, even after I've done loads of really random movies, directors are really surprised that I want to play the parts that I want to play. They just assume that you want to only do the honorable good guy lead who saves the day or dies at the end.
British people are surprised that I'm British!
If you want to be your own master. . . always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.
I'm a big fan of 'Glee. ' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.
Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.
On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving
I would be surprised if Donald Trump got elected.
I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently. 25 to 33 percent of climate change gases can be traced to the food system. I was also surprised that those diseases that we take for granted as what will kill us - heart disease, cancer, diabetes - were virtually unknown 150 years ago, before we began eating this way.
Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.
There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.
I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.
Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival.
Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic. " "You are not," I said. "I am. " She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant. "
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.