Surprises Quotes

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Surprises can be compelling.

Life is full of surprises.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.