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

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
James Madison

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
Andrew Sullivan

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
Floyd Abrams

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
Howard Hodgkin

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
John McCarthy

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
Ken Kesey

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

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.
Michael Giles