Surprise Quotes · Page 48

Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Lois McMaster Bujold

It has happened a few times that I've found myself in a surprise mid-tour recording session.

— Phil Elverum

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

— Charles Morgan

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a…

— E. M. Forster

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

— Christopher Lee

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that…

— Ron Glass

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

— Sarah Silverman

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be…

— Betty White

We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying…

— Yoko Ono

Some people say If you cant beat them, join them. I say If you cant beat them, beat them, because they will…

— Anonymous

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops…

— Sarah Moon

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and…

— Christine Downing

I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble.…

— Michael Jordan

“Legendary manners there, Karim,” she commented, her voice calm. “Your mother teach you?” “I was taught the advantage of surprise,” he responded…

— Katherine McIntyre

The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in…

— Geza Vermes

You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes…

— Rajneesh

My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“She's my pride, my winning prize, always a surprise, to look into her eyes, see her free soul, as soap that slips…

— Anthony Liccione

I think it's often easier to theorize in the official codes of theory rather than to theorize lightly through scene, object, story,…

— Rob Nixon

As an actor, you should always keep your trump card hidden from your audience. I want the audience to keep expecting more…

— Rithvik Dhanjani

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth…

— Bill Gates

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking…

— John Waters

What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with…

— Douglas Adams

“If you expect terrible things…then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.”

— Adèle Geras

You showed me something I couldn't see, I don't wanna hide in the shadow, all I know is that I can't stop…

— Fash

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

— Joan Rivers

“Don’t raise your hand to ask a question, or I’ll give you a surprise high five.”

— Jarod Kintz

I really believe that if people put everything they have into something, they can really surprise themselves most of the time.

— Jim Kerr

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

— Robert Cailliau

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

— Charles Ghigna

What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.

— Bonnie Bassler

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

— Oscar Niemeyer

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make…

— Paula Radcliffe

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

— Mary Wesley

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

— Ross Macdonald

I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right…

— Lakshmi Mittal

“Mostly, people are who they are. But if you accept this about them, you can move forward and build from there—then, they…

— Allison Winn Scotch

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to…

— Alan Lightman

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

— Bolesław Prus