Surprise Quotes
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I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.
Sarah Silverman -
The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
Steve Martin
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I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!
Erin McKeown -
What makes 'Maybach Music V' so special was, of course, I put the album out celebrating my daughter's birthday as well, and DeJ Loaf is her favorite artist. So 'Maybach Music V,' I wanted a real airy type of feel. Just a real slow vibe to it that's also going to surprise my daughter. So that's real special.
Rick Ross -
Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.
Elizabeth Chandler -
Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.
Susan Beth Pfeffer -
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
Marianne Williamson -
When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.
Todd Solondz
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
Eugen Herrigel -
My sister-in-law found a real surprise in her stockings - my brother.
Milton Berle -
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
Social media is like teen sex. Everybody wants to do it. Nobody knows how. When it’s finally done, there is surprise it’s not better.
Avinash Kaushik -
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
Seneca the Younger
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I was thinking I would surprise these guys and get a big enough lead that they couldn't catch me. I didn't stay as focused the last 400 meters. I was out in front on my own for so long, I sort of lulled myself to sleep.
Alan Webb -
Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.
Eugen Herrigel -
The ending is always a surprise.
Daniel Wallace -
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
Anne Bronte -
To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.
Ethan Slater -
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?
Elvis Costello
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And every time I did spectacularly well in my classes, and I'm here to tell you that I did spectacularly well, I could always see the look of surprise on my professors' faces. You don't think I noticed? What you saw on Dave's face, I saw every damned day of my academic career. So what, Andres? I wanted to do something, to be something - and I did it. I don't think I deserve a medal, and I don't think I'm particularly special. I wanted to do something, and I figured out a way to do it.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.
Sue Miller -
How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.
Seth Godin -
Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.
Anne Jackson