Surprise Quotes

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

The best surprise is no surprise.

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

May your season shine with delight and surprise.

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?

Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

There can never be surprises in logic.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece. My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.