Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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 to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

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

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 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 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 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.

I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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 surprises make TV entertaining.

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 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 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.