Surprise Quotes · Page 51

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

— James Lovelock

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

My dad will get a kick out of [Scary Movie 4]. I don't know if he'll love it but by now my…

— Carmen Electra

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

— Michael Pare

I saw what I thought was a donkey posing on the stairs but much to my surprise it was Kim Kardashian.

— Shanna Moakler

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

— Ben Kingsley

I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life…

— Marcia Clark

A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he…

— Sri Chinmoy

My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education,…

— Ana Ivanovic

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real…

— Pat Morita

As a result of being on 'SVU' and 'Homicide' all these years, there's a lot of people who don't know I used…

— Richard Belzer

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand…

— Deb Caletti

You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element…

— Emily Blunt

And most worryingly, it wouldn't surprise me if Putin ends up starting a major military conflict with the West at some point…

— Bill Browder

Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven…

— Alexander MacLaren

“Tyson okay?” I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He’s fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though…

— Rick Riordan

We can think about how we reduce the pain in paying. So, for example, credit cards are wonderful mechanisms to reduce the…

— Dan Ariely

When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe…

— Rebecca Solnit

Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they…

— John Yoo

A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling.…

— Gotye

All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like…

— Scott Berkun

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were…

— Peter Hedges

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that…

— Roger Mudd

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist…

— Elvis Mitchell

Once u accept someone 4 what they Really r... They'll Really Surprise u by being better than U ever Expected...

— Intoxicated Leo

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

— Nobuo Uematsu

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural -…

— Danica McKellar

When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong,…

— Florence Scovel Shinn

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her…

— Mary Mapes Dodge

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of…

— Terry Teachout

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

— Ted Cruz

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some…

— Sigmund Freud

Deadlines comes as a surprise…superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

— Alberto Manguel

“I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.”

— Anne Rice

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

— N.K. Jemisin

That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am.

— Viola Davis

“For me, magic can be a story, a game, a puzzle, or a surprise that takes my breath away in a single,…

— Neil Patrick Harris

The President continues to surprise people, so I am not surprised to be surprised.

— Dick Cheney