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.
