#surprising

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#day #discovers #displays #each #ever

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework. ↗

— John Knowles

#back #both #desks #doing #earlier

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you. ↗

— Tommy Tune

#itself #keep #like #presenting #show

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

#develop #exciting #given #inhibition #most

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it. ↗

— Jon Postel

#article #clearly #computer #explaining #interesting

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#sort #surprising #think #unknown #wonderful

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#america #because #free #i #i always

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#become #go #god #going #happened

Finally, I have to say that the most surprising aspect has been the speed at which the folks in India adapt to Western practices. They learn fast, really, really fast. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#aspect #been #fast #finally #folks