Top 165 Surprises Quotes

I don’t really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other’s gaze that wins out and decides.

Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.

So, we know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I still believe that is the good thing about Nigerian players. We can always spring up so many surprises.

It still surprises me when I get cast in something. I’m not your, you know, I’m… I remember thinking really early on that you have to look a particular way and I’m quite aware of my look, so I always thought I wouldn’t get a lot of screen work.

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It’s funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom’s music, it surprises them.

I’m crazy about surprises. I love chance.

I’d like to be that chameleon. That’s really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: ‘I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he’s gonna be here.’ I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, ‘Yes! I love that guy. He’s in this? Awesome.’

It surprises me that criticism on social media is worst than ever… more and more people tend to seek perfection in others.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We’ll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

There are no words to describe Messi; he always surprises you.

I do not believe they’ve run out of surprises.

One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held conservative principles, and to embrace Donald Trump.

Everybody has the clarity of telling I haven’t seen a player like Lionel Messi, and I am fortunate for training and seeing him every day at the training field. And even sometimes he surprises you with some good performances. There is not comparison with other players I have seen along my life. He is unique.

Gordon Brown doesn’t often spring surprises. He’s usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.

In football, surprises are always possible.

When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don’t come easy.

There’s a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.

Onstage at Build, Phil Spencer said the Xbox is an open platform – which surprises me, because you have to get your game concept approved before you start developing it. Then you have to get every update approved. Microsoft has absolute control.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Pro wrestling fans love surprises, so let’s surprise them, and not just give them the old stuff.

No dog means no disgusting surprises on carpets – thank goodness for those irrigating vacuums they sell at Canadian Tire – no hefty vet bills, no destruction of everything from eyeglasses to baseboards to legs of furniture, and no responsibility.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

I like surprises.

The history of football has always thrown up big surprises.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words… and then you start to create a work of art, and that’s another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

Korean audiences are amazing. The fans scream so loud, and that really surprises skaters when they first perform in my shows.

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it.

When we practice cleaning our slate and interacting without motive, what we actually ‘get’ in return is greater than what we might have expected. Life can open up and be full of surprises that blow past our narrow expectations.

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

Nothing surprises me as far as racism is concerned in this country.

I usually know where I want to end up when I begin, but I have no idea how I’m going to get there… I don’t write with an outline, and surprises happen on the way, and sometimes it changes.

It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound… it’s like musical landfill.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

Once a month, try something you don’t think you’d be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

I always play so many different styles that I don’t think anything I do surprises anyone.

I never look at twists as a way to trick the audience. Obviously, I think a good story has surprises and unexpected turns, and you always want to do that with an audience. But it has nothing to do with conning them or making them believe so strongly in one thing and then kind of going the other way.

What I love is that ‘Game of Thrones’ is always up for surprises.

The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with… stream of consciousness, as it’s called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.

In baseball, nothing surprises me. I understand this is a business.

I can’t imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn’t going to be some enormous surprises. Things that have nothing to do with what we already know.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There’s always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

Anything that I’m passionate about and surprises me usually ends up turning into a joke simply because I have questions about it and I’m curious and I want to talk about it.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.

Life surprises you. It happens to the best of actors, we have good and bad phases.

One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held conservative principles, and to embrace Donald Trump.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.

New York is a fascinating city. I think it’s a very inspiring city, but it’s overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it’s wonderful for young people – very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

It surprises me how quickly the press likes to reach conclusions about my life.

I think it’s good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

I’m actually a bit of a technophobe, which surprises people. I like to stay unplugged as much as possible.

I like surprises.

I turn to my wife for everything. Her success has never affected her as a person – she’s incredibly loyal. We laugh together; we share everything, and she still surprises me. When I saw her in ‘Sweet Charity,’ I was so proud to say, ‘That’s my wife.’

When you’re around for as long as I have, nothing surprises you any more.

When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn’t doing more stories about Asian-Americans.

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

I’ve been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

Most of us have been in a street fight at one point or another and it’s not always the best athlete that wins. Sometimes it’s a tough guy that surprises people and I think that still has a major role in football, which is why the numbers don’t always decide things.

‘Once’ constantly surprises me. I think it’s the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.

In the world I’ve known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can’t drag on.

Alison Carr on ‘Homeland.’ She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

I just think there’s always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that’s playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

I’m one of those writers who, when writing, believes she’s god-and that she hasn’t bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

I know that there are some people who don’t like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

I’m a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there’s no such thing as rules.

High IQ individuals don’t like surprises and are pessimistic, because it’s logical.

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

Nothing surprises me on ‘Happy Endings,’ because the show – I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it’s so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one’s watching.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want to draw upon. Having said that, every single book so far has offered me surprises en route, and these include motifs that come forward as I am writing.

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it’s there I’ll do it.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

One must be prepared for some surprises in life – some things will work out your way, some won’t. You just have to keep working and do things to the best of your ability.

I like surprises.

Six books after the surprises of ‘Full Dark House,’ the Bryant and May novels continue to stay within the bounds of formula by straining against them in new ways.

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah – it’s like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

Life is full of surprises. We’ve seen on the NBA court a lot of surprises. You never know what’s going to happen if we play smart, if we play hard, if we play together.

I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

I have the belief that all the qualified teams can create surprises at the World Cup and not just the traditional top favourites.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There’s not one director with 100% success rate.

Passion surprises. One doesn’t search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

At the top level you know most things about the best clubs, there aren’t too many surprises.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn’t write them again, and wouldn’t want to.

Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

I love the sea’s sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

I will make the greatest efforts to seek a way for Taiwan and mainland China to interact that is mutually acceptable to both sides. I will not be provocative; there will not be any surprises.

Broadway is not about surprises. It’s about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

It always surprises me when people say, ‘I don’t regret one thing about my life. I wouldn’t change anything because it’s all led me to where I am today.’ I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I’m a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I’m not that eccentric in real life – and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people’s faces.

There are bombshells that happen in court. Especially when the defense doesn’t share discovery of material the way the prosecution does, and so surprises always happen. Things pop out without warning.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.

There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Since I’ve been so honest with them, my fans know me very well so I don’t think anything surprises them at this point. I’ve always told them exactly what’s going on in my life and in my head, and because of that, I don’t think anything is a huge surprise to them anymore.

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

I’ve been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It’s one of those surprises in life that makes you think, ‘God was smiling on me that particular day.

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

The solar probe is going to a region of space that has never been explored before. It’s very exciting that we’ll finally get a look. One would like to have some more detailed measurements of what’s going on in the solar wind. I’m sure that there will be some surprises. There always are.

In football and paper things look different but surprises happen, it’s why I don’t believe in having a favorites role in every game we play because the unpredictable can happen.

Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.

Dickens is always full of surprises.

On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you’re going to find surprises.

That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.

Life is full of surprises.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

I’ve had surprises on the campaign trail that have both been just absolutely inspiring and affirming of the great values of the people of this country, and I’ve had some experiences that are disappointing and troubling.

I was sacked at Watford for a change of business plan. Anything can happen in this game. I can’t say I am never surprised because there are some surprises and there are still some crazy things that happen.

I love surprises – champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want – a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.

That’s how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

You can’t mess around with young readers – you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear.

Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care.

The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.

I was sacked at Watford for a change of business plan. Anything can happen in this game. I can’t say I am never surprised because there are some surprises and there are still some crazy things that happen.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

In my childhood dreams, I pictured Italy as paradise. I longed to be the next Sophia Loren, living in a village with winding cobbled streets where washing hung from windows and everybody gesticulated and shouted amicably. Ah, but life surprises.

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift.

Who knows? Maybe years from now I’ll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it’s better when there are a few surprises thrown in.

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I’m just a normal person.

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was falling apart.

There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it’s going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.

What I teach our people is that, as a leader, you have four key roles apart from people management. First is to champion the grand vision. Two, install systems and a culture to run experiments. The third thing is to savour surprises. The fourth thing is that even a leader’s ideas need to be subjected to tests.

It always surprises me and always makes me proud when I see people that I know I worked with at the house in the basement on TV being superstars.

It’s most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

I’ve only ever had surprises. My whole career’s a surprise!

My love can’t be purchased… Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.

I don’t know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

I don’t like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I’d like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

Nothing ever surprises me about the market.

I’m very good at delegating – people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don’t like surprises. I don’t pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what’s going on.

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don’t like surprises. I don’t even like good surprises.

Content that surprises the audience will attract them.

There are going to be some real surprises in ‘Fable 2.’

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

I’ve found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.