It’s hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He’s such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He’s such a live wire. It’s just so exciting to watch.
‘Planet Caravan’ by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.
The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.
Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.
Every two weeks on ‘Doctor Who,’ the set is completely different, the world is different and there are new actors coming in. So, it’s constantly surprising, and it’s a pressure that you relish, actually.
I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.
I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.
I don’t smoke, but people say that you get secondhand smoke. But this is a country that was founded mainly on the tobacco industry – tobacco and coffee. It’s so surprising that they are now essentially making cigarettes illegal, when that is where the whole country came from.
As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves.
People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It’s surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go ‘aaah’. That’s what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn’t surprising, I don’t think.
That was clearly surprising, interesting – a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.
Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word ‘work.’ It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.
I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
But since day one, we’ve always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it’s not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn’t know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was… in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it’s always been.
It was surprising, really, that ‘Minute by Minute’ did as well as it did and as quickly as it did.
This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.
It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Life is always surprising to me. When you think it’s going to get dull, it never really does.
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
I’ve been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It’s not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on ‘Hawaii Five-0’ originated on the wrong side of the law, I’d say he’s worked his way over to the good side.
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process – as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.
I think it’s surprising for a lot of people to see Jack Swagger crossover to MMA because they know Jack Swagger more than they know Jake Hager.
I don’t want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it’s surprising how many ‘fun for the whole family’ acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they’re scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They’re more honest with the audience with who they are.
The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn’t tell a joke to save my life.
It’s the results that are surprising, even results where we’ve totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.
I’m really loving Billie Eilish’s ‘idontwannabeyouanymore.’ Her dreamy vocals offer such a lovely moment of escape, and there’s a sophistication to the lyrics that are so surprising coming from a teen artist.
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it’s not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
I don’t think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
Most people know me from ‘The Office,’ where I played a guy who grunted out three or four words an episode and was kind of a knucklehead, and so I think it’s surprising for people to see me do something like this. But Shakespeare is what I grew up wanting to do.
I want to do something very surprising next. I don’t know what that is – something that has a high degree of risk.
It’s a little surprising to me that I’m the first Houstonian to be an astronaut.
At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is a substitution for punchlines.
I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.
I’m a great admirer of ‘The Simpsons.’ It’s very surprising because it’s backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it’s poking fun at the people who would be its audience.
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.
The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
Writers usually don’t get to pick our own covers. I know it’s surprising to hear that.
The tension I feel is the moment they say, ‘Action!’ Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.
The surprising thing was, it’s actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.
Sweetcorn, mushy peas, beans, lentils, are all basic staples that can be thrown together into a variety of surprising meals.
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you’re working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.
I actually saw ‘Piranha 3DD’ – God, it’s so weird saying that – and it’s actually really surprising. It’s really good. It’s funny; it’s fun. And you actually want more when you see it.
I always like surprising people and doing things at a young age and, I don’t know, trying to do them at a higher caliber than what you’d normally think. I’m not saying I’m a virtuoso, but I always challenge myself.
