Surprisingly Quotes

He's fitting in really well. He's fitting into the scheme surprisingly well. He's a quick learner; he learned the defense really quick from what I hear. Personality-wise, he's great. - Ricky Phillips

Here's an open seat that came up surprisingly at short notice, and anyone who ever thought about running for Congress sometime would say this is my time to take a shot at it. - Gary Jacobson

He was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man. - Ted Koppel

He sounds surprisingly good, strong, like he had gotten some of his fight back. I think just shutting the engine down for a couple of days has helped him immensely. - Frank Keel

He has caught on surprisingly fast. The one thing he has going for him is he's played in the NFL and started a lot of ball games. So, he understands football. - Jim Bates

He and I joked the last time I went up to visit just a few days ago that between the two of us we'd put in 83 years at ABC News. ... He was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man. - Ted Koppel

Grooves get cut into the ice so it has to be flooded each week. You put it on in layers so it freezes up by the following week. Surprisingly, with the weather we have been having, our track is in really good shape right now. - Bob Demesy

GM's numbers are surprisingly bad. - Pete Hastings

Given the impact that Bin Laden has had on the recent history of the world, there is surprisingly a good deal that remains mysterious about him. - Peter Bergen

Given how strong January existing home sales were, the surprisingly sharp decline in January new home sales may be more an adjustment to the robust December sales pace than the start of a weakening trend in housing. - Joel Naroff