surprise quotes

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

When 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.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

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

The Occupy movement is – it was a big surprise.

I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

On 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!

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

To 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.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Brad 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.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

When 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!

Yes, 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.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

When 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.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

I 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.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

The secret to humor is surprise.