We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.
But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.
The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.
Dangle something in front of the camera. Get something surprising to be released.
I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.
Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.
As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.
I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.
After appearing for eight seasons as a beloved character on 'Supernatural,' it's not surprising that I get most of my recognition on the street from that, and it happens with some frequency. But I'm not a guy who gets recognized often.
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.
When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.
I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that.