Surprise Quotes · Page 43

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

— Salvador Dali

I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're…

— Travis Morrison

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

— Gina Carano

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can…

— Paul Weller

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

— Paul McCartney

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would…

— Anne Lamott

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Katherine McIntyre

[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

I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something…

— Nancy Lublin

Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts…

— Kiersten White

Where did Keynes stand on overt fascism? From the scattered information now available, it should come as no surprise that Keynes was…

— Murray Rothbard

If you apprentice yourself to the smartest people who will take you seriously, you will learn at every step. You'll learn their…

— Marc Randolph

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is…

— Russell Lynes

Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all…

— Jeff Cooper

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition…

— Thomas Szasz

When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I…

— Sharon Salzberg

Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I…

— Rachel Caine

“To her continued surprise, the urge to place her thumb on his skin had not diminished, even though she could not even…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have…

— Rem Koolhaas

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

— Mary Lee Settle

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

— Rex Stout

We think till the last minute that nothing can happen to us. But cancer will grab you by surprise, and then it's…

— Manisha Koirala

I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's…

— Boy George

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big…

— Stephen Colbert

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

— Sarah Weeks

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from…

— Henry Moore

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

— Joe Dante

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

— Jennifer Coolidge

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry…

— Niki de Saint Phalle

Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.

— W. T. Purkiser

Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

— Walter Scott

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

— Andrew Dominik