Surprise Quotes

You are such a chick.” I widened my eyes in mock surprise. “No way. Are you sure?

The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.

Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.

As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn't really planned or planted.

If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.

Surprise is the secret of joy.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

My brain surprises even me sometimes.

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

You could have knocked me down with a fender.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

I love the surprise element of being a mom.

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

One mark of good verse is surprise

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take me by surprise, take unexpected turns and twists.

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten