#surprise

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#ever #everyone #know #never #nobody

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze. ↗

— Adele

#always #appearance #been #booze #care

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#expressed #foreign #foreign policy #generosity #i

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

#being #beside #duty #felt #following

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#half #i #i was born #surprised #talk

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#many #not perfect #our #perfect #society

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#bottom #huge #sea #surprise

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#i #in fact #many #people #quite

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#cut #found #had #indians #into

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ↗

— Frank Black

#any #because #break #certain #easy