Surprise Quotes

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

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

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

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

I can be a lady - surprise!

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

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

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

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

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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

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

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.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.