Surprise Quotes

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous... SURPRISE!!

You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

Surprise is key in all art.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.

If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.