#surprising

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#buffalo #stupid #surprisingly

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #art #civilization #contemporary #contemporary art

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. ↗

— Ina Garten

#arrangement #bunch #does #down #florist

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. ↗

— John Langdon

#design #illusions #interwoven #into #language

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. ↗

— James Madison

#confidence #religious #sentiments #surprising #union

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

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#certainly #experience #many #revolutions #science

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

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