#surprise

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. ↗

— Gary Numan

#causing #child #grammar #grammar school #happiest

I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#figure #get #honest #i #kind

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#good #review #surprise #sympathetic #wonderful

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics. ↗

— Al Pacino

#feeling #felt #first #gold #gold medal

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#dream #get #guess #i #like

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#assumed #because #began #big #big surprise

I think I surprise myself. ↗

— Robert Plant

#i think #myself #surprise #think

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american people #continue #current #earth #face

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#back #get #looking #looking back #over

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are. ↗

— Jeff Probst

#change #me #most #surprises #thing