Surprises Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

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.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.'

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.