Surprise Quotes

When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.

21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).

I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?" "Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned. "What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely. "What they put in it.

I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

I don't like to say. I like to just surprise people.

It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.

It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise.

My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.

Love is the one surprise.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.