Surprise Quotes - page 7

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope. (Matthew Bourne)
I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations. View quote
Michael Cerveris
You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over. View quote
Mike Trout
It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era. View quote
Nobuo Uematsu
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen. View quote
Peter Welch
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me. View quote
Parker Stevenson
This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school. View quote
Pat Boone
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable. View quote
Pat Morita
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things. View quote
Richard Schiff
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics. View quote
Roger Mudd
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. (Roger Rosenblatt)
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. View quote
Ron Ben-Israel
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. View quote
Roz Savage
Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake? View quote
Russ Carnahan
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me. View quote
Siegfried Woldhek
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. View quote
Sam Mendes
Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing. View quote
Stephen Dobyns
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish. View quote
Sanaa Lathan
Being a father is a surprise for me every day. View quote
Sean Pertwee
I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out. (Terrence McNally)
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. View quote
Vanessa Carlton
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. View quote
Wendy Carlos
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. View quote
Wietse Venema
We have to live and move and have our being in ahimsa, even as Hitler does in himsa. It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which he has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration. That he uses them as a monster is immaterial for our purpose. We have to bring to bear the same single-mindedness and perseverance in evolving our ahimsa. Hitler is awake all the 24 hours of the day in perfecting his sadhana. He wins because he pays the price. His inventions surprise his enemies. But it is his single-minded devotion to his purpose that should be the object of our admiration and emulation. Although he works all his waking hours, his intellect is unclouded and unerring. Are our intellects unclouded and unerring? A mere belief in ahimsa or the charkha will not do. It should be intelligent and creative. If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of non-violence. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi