Surprise Quotes - page 5

Is Tyson okay?' I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry. (Rick Riordan)
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive. View quote
Rob Sheffield
Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings. View quote
Susan Orlean
The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also quite shocking!) and I noticed she had a mouth, so we ended up talking. We talked about flowers, and her poetry classes, and the problems she'd have if she ever wore glasses. It's great to know a girl who has so many eyes, but you really get wet when she breaks down and cries. View quote
Tim Burton
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel. View quote
Tom Perrotta
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
Surprise me, Atlantean. Attack. This isn't a dance party. (Takeshi) You know, this isn't building my confidence. In fact, I think I'm just going to lie here for a bit and take in some sun. (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The ending is always a surprise. View quote
Daniel Wallace
It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know. View quote
Georges Perec
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it. (Tony Iommi)
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. View quote
Alejandro Amenabar
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied. View quote
Henry B. Eyring
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. View quote
James P. Carse
Sit down, Will. There's a good fellow,” he said. "Yes, sir,” replied Will, and Halt's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "He's never called me sir,” he said. "Probably trying to get on my good side,” Crowley replied. Halt nodded savagely. "Probably. View quote
John Flanagan
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. View quote
Harvey Cushing
Love is the one surprise. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men. (Maureen O'Hara)
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess. View quote
David O. Russell
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.' View quote
Tavis Smiley
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it. View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber