Surprise Quotes

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.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

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.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified 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.

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

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.

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

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

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

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.

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...