Top 1200 Surprise Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny.

The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.

You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

When you get lots of players up front, sometimes a counter-attack can take you by surprise and lead to a chance for the opposition.

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.

'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.

You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

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

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

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.

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.

We've always wanted to do things with kids with the surprise element that we do with celebrities, because their reactions are fantastic and sweet and charming and lovely.

The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping's concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many.

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.

I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.

It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

After 'Jewel In the Crown,' I hardly worked at all for about six months - which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.