Surprise Quotes · Page 12

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

— Adam Lambert

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

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

Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not…

— Carol Kent

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

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if…

— Andy Rooney

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a…

— Nancy Gibbs

With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term,"…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well…

— Anonymous

In spring 1989...I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to…

— Jung Chang

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

The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the…

— Henry Louis Gates

Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it…

— Lionel Shriver

But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound…

— Warren Buffett

“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an…

— Théophile Gautier

No, she knows you're here. She can see through the camouflage. But I think she's hiding something from me, and I'm waiting…

— Kevin Hearne

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

— Chris Bosh

Life is full of surprises, you never know who will surprise you.

— Anonymous

I love anyone who surprises me and makes me laugh.

— Anthony Jeselnik

“How could this have happened when everything was normal?”

— Joan Didion

I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

— Richelle Mead

“We always hate people who surprise our secrets…”

— L.M. Montgomery

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

— Gene Wilder

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

— Ben Kingsley