Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process.

Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

Everyday Leo Messi surprises us with something different.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

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

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.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

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

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 know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is 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 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 don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for 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 fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

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

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

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