Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I love anyone who surprises me and makes me laugh.

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 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 to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.

I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.

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.

I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong.

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

Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but pleasure glowed in his eyes. "What was that for?" "Just seemed like the thing to do," she said. "Well, feel free to do it more often," he encouraged. "I assure you I won't mind.

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

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.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

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.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it's more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself.

It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.