Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.

I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're always a surprise to me.

I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It's about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.

I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

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

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

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

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

If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become acutely self-conscious of the song in performance, so that's a good thing before recording. But I like to have some surprises for the audience; I don't want the audience to know everything that's going to be on the record, because these days, with the Internet, people become avid collectors of pre-knowledge.

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

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.

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

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

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

I love anyone who surprises me and makes me laugh.

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

I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

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

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.

I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.