Surprise Quotes

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Art must take reality by surprise.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

With me it's always about first impressions.

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

There are very few things that surprise me.

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

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

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

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

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.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Surprise is key in all art.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.