Surprise Quotes · Page 11

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

— Barry Diller

“Honestly, my memory was so atrocious I could arrange my own surprise party.”

— Suzanne Wright

My sister-in-law found a real surprise in her stockings - my brother.

— Milton Berle

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

— Alexey Brodovitch

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

— Jean Webster

“I love people who choose to surprise the sad ones, Just to make them smile!”

— Artist Lisa May

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

— Billy Graham

I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

— Adam Lambert

“...motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.”

— Melanie Shankle

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

— Tony Gilroy

“There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.”

— Jincy Willett

Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But…

— LaVell Edwards

“I’d like to live in great comfort. And peace.’ And then she added, quite to her surprise, ‘With no one to tell…

— Kathleen Tessaro

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Expectations are a dangerous thing, Miss Daulton. You’ll be taken by surprise at every turn.”

— Becca Andre

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only…

— Lord Chesterfield

Even though I'd been invited to the combine, I didn't test particularly well. That didn't really surprise me, I had I no…

— Danny Amendola

NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same…

— Mike Mullane

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study…

— Moran Atias

The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would…

— Kyle MacLachlan

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for…

— Brittany Murphy

I was popular at some times and not so popular at other times. But what mattered was trying to solve problems and…

— George W. Bush

You're bored, aren't you.' 'I need constant distraction. Shall we go?' 'Uh, aren't you supposed to delegate responsibility or something? If you're…

— Derek Landy

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions…

— Francis Bacon

It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event…

— Marcel Proust

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would…

— Muriel Spark

When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come out right,…

— Henry Rollins

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug,…

— Mark Twain

What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise…

— Greil Marcus

[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be…

— Obert Skye

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

— Diane Arbus

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

— Craig Benzine

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

— Robert Denning

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

— Alice Walker

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

— Chris Bosh