Top 1200 Surprise Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.

I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.

We like to keep things as a surprise. It's always better like that.

We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.

Football is about dreams, about feeling a special sensation, giving a surprise, and inspiring joy.

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

'Guardians Of The Galaxy' was, as 'Ant-Man' was, just fun, in terms of expanding this universe. We always say, how can we keep audiences surprise at what an MCU film can be?

I identify myself as a explorer, do new things, surprise myself.

Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

It should surprise no one that I'm out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more.

"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.

To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?

The rule has been that when one opens a new channel to the universe, there is usually a surprise in it. Why should the gravitational channel be deprived of this?

It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.

The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

I was working on other things and I wanted to make a film, and I had some ideas brewing in my head. Brandy's [ Burre] circumstance was such that I didn't really know what was going to happen. That was obviously a surprise, but I knew she was in her mid-to-late thirties and she was starting to really think about her life in a way that really appealed to me, appealed to the women that I know in my life.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

As for design, I gravitate to traditional styles but mix it with an element of surprise. Whether it's a big sash bow in the back or an unexpected fabric, it all needs to work together.