#surprise

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#converted #fat #gee #getting #guy

I think I surprise myself. ↗

— Robert Plant

#i think #myself #surprise #think

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#hours #i #judging #last #make

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. ↗

— Donna Rice

#carolina #city #compete #encouraged #friends

When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no. ↗

— Elmer Rice

#asked #had #hardly #how #i

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises. ↗

— Lionel Richie

#been #career #good-bye #i #lionel

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#always #am #away #discontent #europe

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#came #clean #commissioner #conference #downstairs

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom. ↗

— John Sexton

#believe #darkroom #doing #even #found

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind. ↗

— Ward Churchill

#countries #impose #kill #kind #order