The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

- Doug Larson

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

- Leslie Jones

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

- Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

- Jimmy Wales

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

- John C. Reilly

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

- Jimmy Carr

I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.

- Emma Roberts

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

- Dries van Noten

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

- Dave Eggers

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

- Adam Brody

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

- David Hume

Success and failure are equally surprising.

- Daryl Hall

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

- Chaske Spencer

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

- Conor Oberst

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

- Brent Weeks

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

- Bong Joon-ho

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

- Brendon Urie

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

- Bill Watterson

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

- Barack Obama