Surprise Quotes - Page 17

Each moment brings new surprises to the one who has no expectations, who comes with an absolutely open mind. Then incredible things start happening. Even if you had wanted them you could not have expected them; you could not have found yourself worthy enough to expect them.

That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.

I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

We are our own greatest surprise.

Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

There are a lot of things that American fans don't know about me yet! I would say they don't know me at all, but I guess that's great because now I have the chance to surprise them and make friends.

aken’ is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

It's amazing how people can surprise you.

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.