Surprise Quotes - Page 21

... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.

New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

The students always, always surprise me.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

I used to get great press. I get the worst press. I get such dishonest reporting with the media. I've never had anything like it before. It happened during the primaries, and I said, you know, when I won, I said, "Well the one thing good is now I'll get good press." And it got worse. So that was one thing that a little bit of a surprise to me. I thought the press would become better, and it actually, in my opinion, got more nasty.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?" "No. But they like surprises. Almost always.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.

You can't surprise a man with a dog.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.