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

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya Stark

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will

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 friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.
Jackie Weaver

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