#surprised

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ↗

— Mary Austin

#how #i #know #learned #much

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#always #better #boss #deliver #news

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#beat #certain #doing #exchange #exist

I have an appearance on a new TV show called 'Bar Karma' on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making this episode. I play someone with a multiple personality, and I think my fans will be surprised and get a real giggle out of it. It's a new model for TV in that it is interactive with the community. ↗

— Genie Francis

#bar #called #community #current #episode

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration. ↗

— Barney Frank

#april #both #bush #bush administration #created

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#defies #different #different way #going #had

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#i #know #like #lot #me

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#emotional #eventually #i #i am #interested

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#because #capable #complexity #control #entirely

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history