Surprise Quotes
The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.
This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
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.
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.
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.
The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.
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."
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.
I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.
That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.
The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.
O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.
My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
