A Surprise Quotes

#1. I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

Tony Iommi

#2. I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Deborah Moggach

#3. I'm like an abused puppy, so desperate for attention that it's almost a surprise when I get belted in the gut.
Again.

Talia Vance

#4. Come on." He pressed his forehead against mine, grinning.
"You're happy about this. I can tell. It wasn't exactly what we had planned, but it's a surprise, not a disaster. A surprise is a good thing. Right?

Meg Cabot

#5. When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

Audrey Niffenegger

#6. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

Stephenie Meyer

#8. Discovery is the chance they never had, to tell, on oath, how wickedness infects a life. One's only life. Beyond one's will, evil comes, looking for a surprise soft spot, a place to inject its poison.

Kaimana Wolff

#9. 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.

Hector Elizondo

#10. It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

Donnie Wahlberg

#11. She closed her eyes, not really hearing the rest of what he murmured against her ear. All she knew was that it echoed everything that was in her heart. He was a surprise. Love was a surprise. And a surprise love between friends was the best kind of all.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#12. The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.

Condoleezza Rice

#13. In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there's not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).

John Scalzi

#14. One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

Tove Jansson

#15. The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.

Bianca Walkden

#16. He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

Laura Kelly

#17. This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Carl Crawford

#18. Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#19. Turned out Pat had tragically low standards. Sad, but hardly a surprise.

Alex Gabriel

#20. I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.

T.H. White

#21. During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.

Akiane Kramarik

#22. It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

Pat Frank

#23. Do I still love this woman? he asked himself. He was in the habit of observing himself so closely that the answer came as a surprise to him: I do.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#24. As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depiction in perfect oils of some fallen angel. The sheer beauty of it, framed by all that rich black hair, was forever a surprise to her.

J.D. Robb

#25. Trash can!
Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I'd eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn't actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

Karen Chance

#26. Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

Groucho Marx

#27. 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.

Eugene Cernan

#28. We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.

David J. Morris

#29. Yeah, I know," he agreed. "It was a surprise," he admitted. "I mean, who the hell would have expected a ninety-seven-year-old man to just up and die?" Bill's dad had indeed been only three years from his one-hundredth birthday when he shocked everyone by waking up dead one morning.

Hope Jahren

#30. 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.

Chris O'Donnell

#31. A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it?" The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Robert Henri

#32. That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.

Dan Hill

#33. Each day is a surprise - and each day I learn something wonderful and new. Both in writing thrillers and in reporting the news, I work to change the world a little bit. I want readers - and viewers - to be surprised and captivated and even inspired.

Hank Phillippi Ryan

#34. Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.

Marilynne Robinson

#35. Not every collision course comes as a surprise.

John Irving

#36. Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Ani DiFranco

#37. Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

Marc Riboud

#39. I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life. He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration.

Joel Osteen

#40. The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else.

John Patrick Hickey

#41. New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

Fran Lebowitz

#42. Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#43. Of course, if you've ever gotten a surprise package, you can imagine how puzzled and excited Milo was; and if you've never gotten one, pay close attention, because someday you might.

Norton Juster

#44. It doesn't matter how many times I've been called a name, it still hurts - and it still always comes as such a surprise that I never know how to respond. Or maybe I do, but I'm afraid.

James Howe

#45. The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

Scott McClellan

#46. For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.

Violet Haberdasher

#47. I must admit it's a surprise to find myself still here, still talking to you. I prefer to think of it as talking, although of course it isn't: I'm saying nothing, you're hearing nothing. The only thing between us is this black line: a thread thrown onto the empty page, into the empty air.

Margaret Atwood

#48. To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.

Serge Lutens

#49. In what might come as a surprise to religious conservatives and other proponents of early marriage, Mintz reports that apart from the period following World War II, most Americans did not wed until their mid- or even late 20s or early 30s.

Anonymous

#50. Fernando de Ismelda," Enrico says. "You won the kingdom's archery competition. I gather it was quite a surprise to everyone."
"Not to me," the boy says.
I decide that I like Fernando de Ismelda.

Rae Carson

#51. I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

Karl Pilkington

#52. We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

Spike Lee

#53. Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

John Dufresne

#54. Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence
a surprise.

Vera Nazarian

#55. Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.

Richard Shepard

#56. 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.

Lucas Papademos

#57. Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

Debasish Mridha

#58. Oh my God, I can't believe I actually said that out aloud.
Neither could he. The fact that she saw him as so sexually appealing was enough of a surprise to render him speechless. He was numb. Even the dissonance cut off - likely reading his reaction as one of complete unemotionality.

Nalini Singh

#59. It doesn't matter how simple your name is; it's always a surprise to hear it spoken aloud by someone new, how the specific arrangement of syllables sounds coming out of their mouth.

Katie Heaney

#60. This was about as much fun as a surprise birthday party, which Hunter ranked alongside boats that sank.' (Hunter)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#61. What kills a relationship between two people is precisely the lack of challenge, the feeling that nothing is new anymore. We need to continue to be a surprise for each other.

Paulo Coelho

#62. I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

Vikas Swarup

#63. I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

Ron Ben-Israel

#64. When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.

Natalie Dormer

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

Jimmy Buffett

#66. When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quite a surprise how I found myself shooting features. It was like my wildest dreams as a kid collided.

Roger Deakins

#67. You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.

Lucy Corin

#68. I don't go into it trying to be this or that because that completely taints and corrupts the work that you're trying to do. But, I'm thankful and that definitely was a surprise. Hopefully, I'll keep doing stuff that remains interesting and fun for the audience.

Tim Kang

#69. Sharing the cover with Irina means a lot. Irina is the most beautiful woman in the world and working with her was a surprise and something very special. It was the first time we did something together. And I enjoyed it.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#70. When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," we mean "Give me a surprise party. Do something lavish. Just don't tell everyone my age."

Joy Browne

#71. Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

Margaret Atwood

#72. It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

Michael Pare

#73. Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.

Kristen Wiig

#74. What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise that it's producing a degree of paralysis. Politics becomes very reactive and it's hard to deal with the bigger issues.

Jonathan Wood

#75. When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#76. The universe will never 'take away' something that is for our highest and greatest good so when we 'lose' something, or our lives shift, it is always for our benefit. It's unwrapping a surprise present from the universe.

Caroline A. Shearer

#77. I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.

Bat For Lashes

#78. 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?

Russ Carnahan

#79. The truth is always a surprise.

Hanif Kureishi

#80. So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? They're the same thing, Peter said, the answer sudden and sure, although a surprise to him.

Sara Pennypacker

#81. It could be argued that there is an element of entertainment in every pie, as every pie is inherently a surprise by virtue of its crust.

Janet Clarkson

#82. That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

Stuart Scott

#83. The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

Joseph Stiglitz

#84. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.

Jincy Willett

#85. You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Henning Mankell

#86. I tensed up like someone had just given me a surprise rectal exam.

Kristin Walker

#87. Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.

Cormac McCarthy

#88. What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Rick Warren

#89. I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Dave Gibbons

#90. Your guess [about the future of technology] is as good as mine. The only thing I'm sure of is (a) most of the predictions I hear are almost certainly wrong, and (b) the things that will turn out to be important will come as a surprise, even though in hindsight they'll seem perfectly obvious.

Steve Krug

#91. I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

Richelle Mead

#92. Loss of resilience can come as a surprise, because the system usually is paying much more attention to its play than to its playing space.

Donella H. Meadows

#93. Every time something happens, whether I've won the most or lost the most, there's always 'oldest' tied to it. It's not a surprise anymore.

Daniel Nestor

#94. Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

Anne Jackson

#95. Mom's reaction to this chaos isn't a surprise. No matter how high the bill that she is paying or that Medicare is paying for her, she will say to me or herself: "What happens to all the people who can't afford this? It's just not fair." Universal

Will Schwalbe

#96. Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

Larry David

#97. Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

Evangelista Torricelli

#98. Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#99. The knife to heart is always a surprise;
it isn't the fashion to name evil
or forever bind a liar to their lies.

Talie Helene

#100. Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Margaret Cho