Surprise Quotes - Page 7

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.

For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.