Surprise Quotes

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

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

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

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

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.

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

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

God shows up with surprises.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.