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100 Surprise You quotes by 85 unique authors

Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before… — Tom Robbins
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. — Kirk Douglas
This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression. — Irving Kahn
I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly. — Joe Dante
Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want… — Eric Kripke
This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school. — Pat Boone
I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in… — Brad Falchuk
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you… — Lev Grossman
Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to… — John Cleese
We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we're living in, these tools surprise you. ... That's why I love… — Steve Jobs
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. — Sam Mendes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George S. Patton
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see… — Henry B. Eyring
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very… — Bill Gates
Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people… — Sarah Dessen
At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you… — Zane Grey
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something… — Douglas Coupland
Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly. — Laurell K. Hamilton
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and… — Jack Kerouac
My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" "Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that… — Jim Butcher
I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something… — Lisa Kleypas
You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do,… — Michelle Moran
I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority. — Trenton Lee Stewart

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