Surprise Quotes

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

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.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

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

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

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

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

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

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.