This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar WildeWhen I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
Clint EastwoodYes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.
Clint EastwoodNothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.
Conor McGregorOn one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!
Richard BransonSociety is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSomeday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
Fidel CastroA friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.
Erma BombeckI try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.
Jim CarreyTo Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.
Robert GreeneNobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘
Joyce MeyerIt’s going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
George W. BushGrowing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy GrahamSeptember 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.
Noam ChomskyAn economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.
Will RogersWho is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.
King SolomonThere is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
Bill GatesFor me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.
Stephen CurryTrying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.
Richard P. FeynmanThe backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Carl von ClausewitzNo tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert FrostDread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.
Joyce MeyerWhen I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
Narendra ModiPut a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin DisraeliWhen I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.
Conor McGregorI was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
Hermann HesseWell before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.
Noam ChomskyIt is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.
Jim MattisTomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
David BowieI have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.
George W. BushThose thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
William JamesPeople tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
Brian EnoI never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Albert EinsteinI can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
Neil ArmstrongThe Occupy movement is – it was a big surprise.
Noam ChomskyWhen I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!
Lana Del ReyIt is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
VoltaireOnce the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray BradburyI’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
RihannaFear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
AristotleWhile physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen HawkingSometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.
David ByrneA politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston ChurchillScience has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
Neil ArmstrongI’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
Jordan PetersonIt’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
Bob DylanI have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
Matthew McConaugheyBrad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.
Angelina JolieFor a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas AdamsBetter understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim RohnOur lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Arthur C. ClarkeIt was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
John LennonThe future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James BaldwinOccurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert EinsteinI’m not a fortune-teller.
Karl LagerfeldAlthough almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.
Stephen HawkingIn the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Brian EnoAt 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.
Jimmy Buffett