Surprise Quotes · Page 35

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because…

— Garrison Keillor

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

— Anthony Trollope

I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.

— Henry Mancini

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

— David Fincher

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

— Glenda Bailey

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose…

— Erwin McManus

“She supposed there was no surprise there; all you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a…

— Stephen King

It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose,…

— Stephen Hawking

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle…

— Agnes Repplier

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I…

— Anonymous

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I…

— Jojo Moyes

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would…

— Lewis Thomas

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won…

— Anonymous

If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know,…

— John Cameron Mitchell

“I knew you were the next one the second I laid my eyes on you singing in that club, but you can…

— Georgia Cates

Computers get better, faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. But…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just…

— Cassandra Clare

While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life…

— Bruce Lee

That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me… But others more experienced also did not know of…

— Christopher Cokinos

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course…

— Christopher Bollen

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to…

— Henri Nouwen

I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston,…

— Lewis Black

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent…

— Luke Harding

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

— William Stafford

“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”

— Jodi Picoult

The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of…

— Archibald Rutledge

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

— Anonymous

Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't…

— Paul Kengor

I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for…

— Chris O'Donnell

Today would have been the birthday of Osama bin Laden. It makes me remember when Seal Team 6 threw him a surprise party.

— David Letterman

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.

— Nicholas Sparks

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

— Martin Freeman

Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.

— Logan Henderson

I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.

— Sean Sasser

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and,…

— Shweta Tripathi

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

— Henry Louis Gates

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

— Steven Wilson