#surprising

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#because #better #granted #i #just

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#back #bit #come #help #how

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

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

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#arabia #defies #easy #like #lot

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#drama #might #only #order #surprising

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#had #sentence #surprising

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#broke #came #columbus #dimension #discovered

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#built #how #memory #much #surprising

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