Quotes About Good Surprises

#1. I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

Abigail Johnson

#2. You're afraid? But that's what life is. There are bad surprises, yes. Awful surprises sometimes. But what makes the good surprises so good is that they're unexpected.

A.L. Player

#3. The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is 'How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?' Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.

Matt Groening

#4. One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!

C. JoyBell C.

#5. If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I want my movies to be visually interesting and to have a lot of energy and be colorful and full of life.

Richard Shepard

#6. Chantelle: The future's going to sneak up on all of you.
Evelyn: Good thing I like surprises.

Rachel Hera

#7. Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

#8. 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.

Colm Meaney

#9. I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

Charles Bukowski

#10. Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

Dianna Agron

#11. Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided; sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.

Steve Goodier

#12. I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.

Michael Stuhlbarg

#13. I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.

Anna Wintour

#14. Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

Spike Lee

#15. I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.

Bai Ling

#16. I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.

Eliot Wigginton

#17. I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

Carine Roitfeld

#18. I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

Rick Riordan

#19. Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Mae West

#20. Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

Alan W. Watts

#21. Good or bad, it's the little surprises that keep life interesting.

Tadahiko Nagao

#22. Life is varied, colorful, and full of surprises. It is always good to remember that your existence matters, so better get moving and move forward with your life.

Kcat Yarza

#23. Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Iris Murdoch

#24. Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Frank Herbert

#25. Surprises are one of the secrets of a good relationship. Find someone who, out of the blue, will grab you, and a blanket, take you to a secluded spot and canoodle as the sun rises...

Virginia Alison

#26. We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Henry Bromell

#27. I was realising that all new feelings from here on in would probably be bad ones. Surprises would no longer be good.

Lorrie Moore

#28. May the surprises in your lives always be good ones.
And may the people in your lives treat you kindly and fairly.
And may the choices and sacrifices you make in your lives be the right ones for you.
May you be blessed in every way, and happy in your lives.

Danielle Steel

#29. If there's one thing life is good at, it's surprising you," Jack said. "And sometimes it surprises you in the best ways.

Chris Colfer

#30. 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

#31. The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again "dang it" moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.

Jaha Knight

#32. Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.

Tony Abbott

#33. Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

Lionel Richie

#34. The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#35. God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#36. It's one of the things I like about being in France, it brings out the best in me, and always surprises me-and even when I think it won't be good for me, it is.

Mark Greenside

#37. Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Pablo Escobar

#38. You are a fortunate person, indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, unexpected turns of events

Roy Benjamin