Surprise Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.