Surprise Quotes · Page 37

For me, running a set and directing has been the most rewarding thing of my life and a happy surprise, because it…

— Pamela Adlon

There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity…

— Ottmar Hitzfeld

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.

— Cassandra Peterson

You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

— Nan Kempner

Well, hello there, Mother,” Sebastian said in a voice like silk. “Surprised to see me?

— Cassandra Clare

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

— Vernon A. Walters

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

— Anonymous

I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what…

— Bat for Lashes

There is no doubt I have offended many people. No doubt, also, that I have blasphemed. I sometimes try to offend as…

— Frankie Boyle

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I…

— Shirley Jackson

“My knowledge of the dangerous problems that were developing at the Desoto Solar Farm and my following of OSHA law were clearly…

— Steven Magee

“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like…

— Jincy Willett

I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film from last year. She's just an…

— Virginia Madsen

Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to…

— Sharon Stone

“I thought of telling her that I was seeing a boy, too, or at least that I'd watched a movie with one,…

— John Green

What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke…

— Slash

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to…

— James Morcan

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our…

— Pope Benedict XVI

It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was…

— Benjamin Tucker

I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were…

— Barack Obama

Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s…

— Richard Ramirez

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

— Sam Wanamaker

No gamer, whether you've played 'Duke 3D' or you haven't, can play 'Duke Forever' without having experiences that surprise them.

— Randy Pitchford

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled…

— Cat Stevens

To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.

— Ethan Slater

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

— Keith Jarrett

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

— Aleksandra Mir

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to…

— Don Murray

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise…

— Dave Attell

Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you're outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much.

— Nigel Hawthorne

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

— Jehane Noujaim

Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

— Bernard Malamud

Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore, life do her magic and prove you wrong!!! Thank You !!

— Laylablack

Once a month, try something you don’t think you’d be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

— Dianna Agron

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

— Jeff Tweedy

For me, the biggest surprise? I had no idea how worldwide the fandom for 'The Witcher' was.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich