Surprise Quotes

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

Nothing human surprises me.

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

The students always, always surprise me.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

Nothing about me surprises me.

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.

Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

My dad will get a kick out of [Scary Movie 4]. I don't know if he'll love it but by now my family know what to expect from me. So it's no surprise.

I can be a lady - surprise!