Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

You will never be surprised if you keep catching the easy fish.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is the laugh. The bigger the surprise or insight in your joke, the bigger the laugh.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

aken’ is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

"And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?” “That's right,” I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word. He shook his head. “You're incredible.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Angels emerge from the presence of God and worship of God, are sent on mission for our redemption, so it doesn't surprise me to read in the Bible of angels leading us into the presence of God in worship.

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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.

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!

Being a father is a surprise for me every day.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone. Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence. And that change, though I'm often fearful of it, has presented me with some of the greatest surprises I've ever received. I'm learning to become friends with it.

But what if you're wrong? What if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? What if you jump? And just close your eyes? What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise? What if He's more than enough? What if it's love?

By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.

During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

Everyday Leo Messi surprises us with something different.