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Surprise Quotes - Page 10

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

Trenton Lee Stewart (2014). “The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma”, p.87, Chicken House

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

"Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

"Spike Lee Scores Kickstarter Goal". Interview with Craigh Barboza, www.ebony.com. August 22, 2013.

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.

SIDNEY M. JOURARD (1968). “DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF”

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4360, Delphi Classics

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.6, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Interview with Claire E. White for "The Internet Writing Journal", www.writerswrite.com. August 2001.