Quotes About Big Surprises

#1. Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

Steven Amsterdam

#2. Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.

Robert B. Weide

#3. The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance ... something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.

Julio Cortazar

#4. The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

Paul Theroux

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

Stanley Schmidt

#6. Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. life surprises you and the big thing catches you unawares.

Catherine Green

#8. As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the
ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and to make them
irresistibly practical, humorous and human. She makes clear that
progress and pleasure go together.

Gloria Steinem

#9. The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.

Pope John Paul II

#10. I am happy today. I am a tyrant.

Anais Nin

#11. When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Lance Henriksen

#12. It surprises me, how a small gesture can feel so very big. How sometimes you don't realize the nervousness or sadness you were holding deep inside until the touch of someone you love lets it all out of you, like your entire body is exhaling.

Lucy Keating

#13. It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

Mario Balotelli

#14. Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.

David Gerrold

#15. Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.

Rick Mercer

#16. Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish?

Azar Nafisi

#17. Bonobos, related to chimpanzees and native to the Congo, have been found to engage in French kissing.

Karen Shanor

#18. Ask for nothing less than inspiration.

Deepak Chopra

#19. 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

#20. The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

Peter Lynch

#21. You ever get a postcard, you get so excited you don't even read it! "Hey I got a - who cares."

Jim Gaffigan

#22. On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back to about 250,000 to 300,000, to more easily assimilate the Americans who've come here in the last 30 years.

Pat Buchanan

#23. We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

John O'Keefe

#24. Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

Max Lerner

#25. Promotion comes to any nation only the light of the Gospel

Sunday Adelaja

#26. Trust in the process of life.

Truth Devour