Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

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

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'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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

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.

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take me by surprise, take unexpected turns and twists.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time. And then you can really surprise yourself. There's that cliche, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader!

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, anytime there's any Twilight-related event or anything.

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.

It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.

It should come as no surprise that Russia continues its effort to manipulate Western democracies in a way to sow discord and disagreements between our countries in NATO and within the United States or any other Western European country. And it's something the United States obviously must be on guard against.

It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?

It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.