Surprise Quotes · Page 23

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

— Alexander Wang

Nothing feels better than a surprise text from that person you miss

— Anonymous

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

— Lisa Kleypas

I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

— Corey Hawkins

To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.

— George Carlin

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

— Seneca the Younger

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

— F. Murray Abraham

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

— Lawrence Wright

Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.

— Jim Cornette

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter,…

— Marc Riboud

“I have a surprise for you.” I made a face. “I don’t really like surprises. They tend to try to eat me…

— Karen Lynch

[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.

— Brent Spiner

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it…

— Bruce Springsteen

I make music and hope people enjoy it - but when they do it's always a surprise. A nice surprise, but not…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of…

— Evan Spiegel

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

— Esperanza Spalding

My career is very important and I'm pretty ambitious. Marriage is not a priority, not the focus of my existence. Of course,…

— Megan Gallagher

So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If…

— David Nevins

Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which…

— Douglas Adams

No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long…

— Shashi Tharoor

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate…

— Margot Asquith

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a…

— Jay Roach

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in…

— Adam Grant

'Get Out,' of course, is the surprise hit movie that Peele wrote and directed about a black man named Chris, who discovers…

— Wesley Morris

The Jews believed they were the nation God had chosen among all the nations. And they were. But that did not give…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

People were intrinsically selfish, and many hated the idea of a woman in charge of the Institute. They would not put themselves…

— Cassandra Clare

Janies lips part in surprise. She takes it. Feels really strange about opening it in front of him. She wets her lips…

— Lisa McMann

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike…

— Edward Albee

“I was wondering where the real party was." I jumped, sending my pencil in a sharp line across the page. Alex was…

— Melissa Jensen

When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have…

— Eliza Leslie

I prefer to feel uncomfortable by participating in projects were I am not the specialist. I am always the one who knows…

— Gaspar Claus

Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of…

— Michael Dirda

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

— Nick Flynn

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

You know, you can really count on a monkey to surprise you as well.

— Fred Hechinger

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

— Rabindranath Tagore

It's hard to surprise people with everything leaking on the Internet.

— Bryan Konietzko

Sometimes films surprise you in a way that you didn't even expect.

— Sargun Mehta

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.

— Simon Schama

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

— Eric Allin Cornell