quotes about Surprise
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Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.
-- Adam Lambert -
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
-- Agnes MartinSource : Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1973). “Agnes Martin: exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”
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No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
-- Alan Redpath -
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
-- Alan TuringSource : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 450, 1950.
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What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
-- Aldo Rossi -
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
-- Alexander Calder -
To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.
-- Alexander SuvorovSource : "As Military Adviser in China". Book by Aleksandr Cherepanov, p. 245, 1982.
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A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
-- Alexander Wang -
The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.
-- Alexey Brodovitch -
Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
-- Alison Lurie -
I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.
-- Amaury NolascoSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
-- Anais Nin -
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
-- Andrew Coyle Bradley -
I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me
-- Andrew Cuomo -
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.
-- Anna Wintour -
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Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.
-- Anne Jackson -
Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
-- Anne Lamott -
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
-- Anne Lamott -
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.
-- Archibald Rutledge -
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Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
-- Arielle Dombasle -
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
-- Ashley MontaguSource : Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”
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I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.
-- Audrey TautouSource : "The Secret Life Of Audrey Tautou". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 29, 2004.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
-- Barbara Mertz -
I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
-- Barry Diller -
I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
-- Ben Stein -
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
-- Bernard Malamud -
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It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I'm English and, as such, I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.
-- Bill Bailey -
A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!
-- Billy Connolly -
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
-- Billy Graham -
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Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.
-- Billy ZaneSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
-- Brad Meltzer -
Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.
-- Brett Favre -
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Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
-- Brian Selznick -
The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.
-- Bruce Lee -
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.
-- Buwei Yang Chao -
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The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me.
-- Carlos EireSource : Carlos Eire (2012). “Waiting For Snow In Havana”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
-- Carol KentSource : Carol Kent (1990). “Secret passions of the Christian woman”, NavPress Publishing Group
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Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?
-- Cathleen Schine -
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
-- Charles BaudelaireSource : Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.74
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Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita
-- Charles de Lint -
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
-- Charles Dickens -
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
-- Charles Dickens -
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Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
-- Charles Ghigna -
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.
-- Charles WheelanSource : Charles Wheelan (2010). “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
-- Chevy Chase -
The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."
-- Chris GethardSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
-- Chris Patten -
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
-- Christopher LeeSource : "Work hard - and play plenty of golf". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
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I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
-- Christopher Walken -
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions.
-- Danica McKellar -
I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.
-- Daniel Inouye -
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It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things.
-- Daniel Lanois -
There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear
-- Darrell Waltrip -
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I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.
-- Dave Gibbons -
Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.
-- David GerroldSource : David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.50, BenBella Books, Inc.
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If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.
-- David Hobson -
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
-- David MorrisseySource : "Q&A: The Walking Dead's David Morrissey on The Governor's Revenge". Interview with TJ Kosinski, www.esquire.com. February 08, 2013.
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The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
-- Deborah NorvilleSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.
-- Deborah WilesSource : Deborah Wiles (2002). “Love, Ruby Lavender”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.
-- Denholm Elliott -
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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
-- Derek WalcottSource : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan
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I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
-- Dick CavettSource : Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
-- Don RoffSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.
-- Emily Watson -
It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me.
-- Enrique Iglesias -
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With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
-- Eric Allin Cornell -
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
-- Eric HobsbawmSource : "Staking Out The Globe" by David M. Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. February 21, 1988.
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It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
-- Erwin McManus -
The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
-- Esperanza Spalding -
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
-- Eugen Herrigel -
Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.
-- Ezra Koenig -
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
-- F. Murray AbrahamSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.
-- Fernando Araujo Perdomo -
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... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.
-- Frances Wright -
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Art must take reality by surprise.
-- Francoise SaganSource : 1958 Writers at Work.
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Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
-- Frank Herbert -
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One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.
-- Frank WelkerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
-- Frida Kahlo -
Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)
-- Gail Giles -
I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel
-- Garth Nix -