Surprise Quotes - page 19

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. (Gus Van Sant)
Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control. View quote
Deb Caletti
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket. View quote
Deb Caletti
Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought. View quote
Derek Landy
I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my head, and he cleared his throat. It's okay,' I said. 'I know I'm blue.' It caught me by surprise,' he said. 'I didn't want to seem rude. View quote
Janet Evanovich
I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time. View quote
Jenna Coleman
I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life. View quote
Jenny Lawson
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. View quote
Jeffery Deaver
You are such a chick.” I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure? View quote
Gena Showalter
I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully. (Joe Abercrombie)
I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you. View quote
John Cusack
'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests. View quote
Jonah Hill
There are very few things that surprise me. View quote
Judi Dench
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. View quote
Julian Fellowes
Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth. View quote
Edna O'Brien
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. View quote
Amy Bloom
My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth. View quote
Amy Bloom
It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise. View quote
Elizabeth Berg
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend. View quote
Elizabeth Strout
Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it-love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn's leaves and catches them by surprise. (Elizabeth Chandler)
The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel. View quote
Elaine Pagels
The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me. View quote
Carlos Eire
You're never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise. View quote
Kirsten Miller
I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself. View quote
Lisa Kleypas