Surprise Quotes

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

War always takes you by surprise.

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

Man is never out of range of surprises!

Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world!

Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations.

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.

You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

It's amazing how people can surprise you.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

I think there's almost an expectation that it should be Theresa [May] and Boris [Johnson]. I think they'd be real surprise if it ended up with someone else.

It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see, That though the English are effete They're quite impervious to heat.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.