The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
Enya

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
Luc de Clapier

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
Kenneth Branagh

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
Malcolm Wilson

They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised.
Sherman Austin

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
C. S. Forester

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.
Coco Lee

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
Fay Vincent

This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.
Janet Suzman

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
Marilyn Manson

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
Robert Benchley

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
Shane Leslie

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.
Seth Lloyd

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.
Tre Cool

We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.
John Sayles