Surprise Quotes

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

It's shocking the things we call love.

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason. Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

It's no surprise that the corporate media, and many of the nonprofits that are dependent on the big money, they are not allowing our campaign the real alternative to see the light of day.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Miracles are experiences that take us by surprise.

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."