Surprise Quotes

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

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

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

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.

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.

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.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

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

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

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

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

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 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.

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

I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.

The ending is always a surprise.

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was a lovely surprise to find so much meat on the bone.

It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.