#surprising

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#difference #little #little difference #love #old

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#advanced #frequency #get #i #most

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#country #country music #find #i #i love

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#covered #habit #keeps #prevents #realism

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#book #get #good #how #just

I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme. ↗

— Evan Davis

#always #annoying #asked #away #come

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#again #amount #behind #college #goes

My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#being funny #bit #company #everything #experience

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration. ↗

— James Bovard

#been #being #concern #conservative #conservatives

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. ↗

— Francis Crick

#amino #bases #biochemical #biochemistry #ever