Surprise Quotes - page 20

When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever. (Lana Turner)
Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group. View quote
Liz Tuccillo
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility. View quote
Luke Harding
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes. View quote
Earl Nightingale
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. View quote
Martin Freeman
Erdogan's accusation is no surprise, not for what it says about me but rather for what it reveals about his systematic and dangerous drive toward one-man rule. View quote
Fethullah Gulen
I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody. View quote
Rod Steiger
I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people. View quote
Christian Louboutin
As I describe inspiration I do not want you to think I am speaking of religion. That which takes us by surprise - moments of happiness - that is inspiration. Inspiration which is different from daily care. Many people as adults are so startled by inspiration which is different from daily care that they think they are unique In having had it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Inspiration is there all the time. View quote
Agnes Martin
We picked up Madonna at The Ritz to go to the Gaultier show together, and she took off her coat. At this point she hadn't even said a word to me, but she leaned over and said to me, Anna, I have a surprise for you, and she showed me she was wearing my dress. (Anna Sui)
John Cage said that music is the moral evaluation of sound. We might generalize his remark: when we speak of art, we make a moral evaluation of the relative worth of the various contributions to a work. It is no surprise that many of the participants differ with more conventional evaluations and rank their own contributions as more important than that of the artist as conventionally defined. View quote
Howard S. Becker
What is the greatest surprise you have found about life? View quote
Billy Graham
When the enemy is demoralized from within... A single blow must destroy him. Aerial attacks, stupendous in their mass effect, surprise, terror, sabotage, assassinations from within, the murder of leading men... that is the war of the future. View quote
Hermann Rauschning
His ascension to the post of Prime Minister was a bit of a surprise, since he was not a frontrunner and was neither from the Congress nor the BJP, predictably the two largest winners. However, since an alliance between them was out of the question, it was left to the Congress to throw its weight behind a number of regional parties and take control. The Janata Dal and Gowda emerged the biggest winners. View quote
H. D. Deve Gowda
There are the many daily examples of taboo speech, usually profanities or obscenities, that express such emotions as hatred, antagonism, frustration, and surprise. The most common utterances consist of single words or short phrases (though lengthy sequences may. View quote
David Crystal
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity. View quote
Paul Davies
It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment. View quote
Jesse Helms
I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly. View quote
Joe Dante
The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise. View quote
Michael Kors
First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought we were going into another Korean war, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies. We never understood them, and that was another surprise. And we knew even less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this dirty kind of business. It's very dangerous. (Maxwell D. Taylor)
Imagination over dogma, vulnerability over serenity, aspiration over obligation, comedy over tragedy, hope over experience, prophecy over memory, surprise over repetition, the personal over the impersonal, time over eternity, life over everything. View quote
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
The very fact of our existence - a miracle arousing surprise of the great minds. View quote
Zafar Mirzo
At first, I thought I had found in this second figure [a bronze Orpheus, Zadkine made shortly after his return from New York to Paris, in 1944] the perfect solution, but a surprise awaited me. One day my coal merchant delivered to me, here in my studio, some wood for heating; among these logs I found a rudimentary but completely mysterious wooden figure of a man. He seemed to be walking in great strides, his torso suggested by only two simple boards which, in their structure, were very much like an ancient lyre. I immediately began working on a new 'Orpheus', in which the [music-]instrument had truly become part of the man. View quote
Ossip Zadkine
For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do. View quote
Arjun Rampal