Surprising Truth Quotes

Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.

Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.