Surprise Quotes
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If I were sent to Siberia, it would not surprise me. I would even prefer to just be a maid than go on living like this. You will pay for your apathy.
Camille Claudel
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It was a complete surprise when Warren called me at my office at Yahoo, and my secretary said it was Warren Buffett. I figured it was a friend of mine playing a joke on me.
Susan Decker
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When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn't planned on. We have that opportunity at home, at school, and at church.
Russell M. Nelson
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It almost takes people by surprise when I'm not a big talker. Because I'm known as being sort of a loud mouth. I have a lot to say. But I try to be more thoughtful with my comments or reactions, unless it's something witty or hysterical that I just can't keep myself from blurting or tweeting!
Natalie Maines
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It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
Stephen Hopkins
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
Andy Grove
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
Seneca the Younger
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Someone was holding up a sign for Loz that said “fast!” at random times, and there was also a weird length to every other line of chords. It just takes you by surprise when you’re listening, always wrong-foots you, I like that.
Andrew Bell
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More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
Keith Morris Black Flag
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My original projections were for us to do about $2 million the first year and maybe $4 million the second. Toyota wasn't even on the horizon when we first started planning to come to San Antonio. That was another surprise.
Joe Davis
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You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
Satya Bhabha
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The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.
William Plomer
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
Charles Baudelaire
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Everything's really good right now. I think there's potential this weekend to pick up some more. Another 10 fish this season wouldn't surprise me.
David Campbell
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My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.
Alyssa Milano
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What was his surprise and his joy when, on looking himself over, he saw that he was no longer a Marionette, but that he had become a real live boy!
Carlo Collodi
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... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
Samuel Alexander
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When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?
Curtis Hanson
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When you look into my eyes And you see the crazy gypsy in my soulIt always comes as a surprise When I feel my withered roots begin to grow Well I never had a place that I could call my very own That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
Billy Joel
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Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Jimmy Buffett
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I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film from last year. She's just an amazing actress. And I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.
Virginia Madsen
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Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
T.A. Barron
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Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
Marlo Thomas
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Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.
George Gilder