Top 92 Quotes About Like Surprises
#1. I really do like surprises. I'm not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, but yeah I'm very much a spontaneous guy and it's sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.
Adam Young
#2. Gardens ... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
H.E. Bates
#3. If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.
Shilpa Agarwal
#4. Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.
Edie Falco
#5. Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
Matthew Pearl
#6. Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate it.
LaVell Edwards
#7. Tell me about your project." "It's a surprise," I said loudly over the siren. "I don't like surprises." No surprise there.
Jennifer Echols
#8. 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
#9. I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
Zaha Hadid
#11. It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
#12. I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
Christopher Hitchens
#13. I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.
Boy George
#14. I have a present for you."
He raised his eye brows. "I don't like your surprises."
"You'll like this one. Close your eyes.
Mav Skye
#15. Love, like destiny, loves surprises ...
Amelia Barr
#16. Note to self: Try to stop reacting to surprises like a cartoon character.
Jane Jameson
Molly Harper
#17. I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It's funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom's music, it surprises them.
Steve Vai
#18. Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.
Keith Jarrett
#19. I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.
Jenny Downham
#20. Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.
Jim Woodring
#21. I figure if you truly love someone, it must be like the river: full of hidden surprises and sparkles so bright it just about makes your heart stop.
Jan Stites
#22. Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
Brad Meltzer
#23. Kaz is ... I don't know, he's like nobody else I've ever known. He surprises me." "Yes. Like a hive of bees in your dresser drawer." Jesper barked a laugh. "Just like that.
Leigh Bardugo
#24. You don't like surprises?" "I'm fine with them." Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday. Let's get naked on the porch. Oh God.
Nora Roberts
#25. Love surprises us in unexpected ways, in ways that are beyond our comprehension. It's never the sweet words or the mushy gifts that matter. What matters more are little things like caring about someone and not being able to sleep till you're sure that the one you love is safe and sound.
Sudeep Nagarkar
#26. But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.
Sarah Addison Allen
#27. It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound ... it's like musical landfill.
James Blake
#28. He was constantly surprising me like that. I had thought I didn't like surprises, but I found I did when they came from him.
Malorie Blackman
#29. I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.
Audrey Tautou
#30. The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
Jean Baudrillard
#31. Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,
Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#32. 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
#33. People who like surprises want you to like surprises, too.
Emily Giffin
#35. 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
#36. It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.
John Britt Daniel
#37. Don't you worry, darlin'," he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. "I like surprises
Lisa Daily
#38. But it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and cool that it surprises you that it has such strength.
Sarah Addison Allen
#39. Chantelle: The future's going to sneak up on all of you.
Evelyn: Good thing I like surprises.
Rachel Hera
#40. Don't you like surprises?' No, Frances didn't like surprises. She hated the thought of people plotting and planning on her behalf. She loathed the burden of being delighted once the surprise was disclosed.
Sarah Waters
#41. I don't want to have to inadvertently find a gift and go like, "What the hell is - - oh no, that's for me." And then have to pretend like I'm surprised later. I won't look. If I know where they're hidden, I will not look. I love presents and I hate faking surprises.
Neil Patrick Harris
#42. 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
#43. Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?"
"No. But they like surprises. Almost always.
Derek Landy
#44. But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.
Julie Anne Long
#45. Your eyes surprise me every time I look into them and they're looking back at me. Your mouth surprises me, because you always seem to smile more with one half that with the other, like part of you knows a funny secret that none of the rest of us, not even your other half, can guess.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#46. 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.
Jacques Derrida
#47. Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought into making you.
Khaled Hosseini
#48. I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
Kate Del Castillo
#49. A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought in making you.
Khaled Hosseini
#50. I knew your father. I hated him."
"That surprises me your Majesty." Loki smiled broadly at her. "My father was a stone-cold jerk. That sounds like your taste exactly.
Amanda Hocking
#51. Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.
Orson Scott Card
#52. There are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments.
Lia Riley
#53. I love it when my brain just spontaneously takes over like that. It always surprises me.
Elle Casey
#54. 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
#55. Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.
Lisa Randall
#56. Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.
Peter F. Lake
#57. It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M.F.K. Fisher
#58. 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
#59. [o]f course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
Woodrow Wilson
#60. The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes every hour a happy hour.
Lilly Pulitzer
#61. Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.
Charles Wheelan
#62. I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
Tony Abbott
#64. Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.
James R Newman
#65. I think on 'ER,' my other long-running show, I had some ideas about what's going on. 'Stargate Universe,' they were kind of secretive too a little bit about what they wanted to do, but I kind of liked working this way. I like the surprises, and I like knowing just enough to work on the character.
Ming-Na Wen
#66. Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.
David Mamet
#67. I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.
Jeffrey Pierce
#68. I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.
Marc Warren
#69. Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it.
Vincent Nichols
#70. You know how someone - something - surprises you. You wake up a little bit. That's done through Chinese cuisine - for example, through dishes of artifice. That's a whole sub-tradition in Chinese cuisine. To create a dish that comes to the table looking like one thing but actually is something else.
Nicole Mones
#71. I'm a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I'm not that eccentric in real life - and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people's faces.
KSI
#72. 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
#73. [Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.
Sarah Moon
#74. Life is like a box of chocolates, loaded with surprises, some delightful and some downright disagreeable. The yummy ones, of course, are easy to swallow, but the yucky ones are sometimes hard to stomach.
Tammy Bennett
#75. 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
#76. The world is like that
incomprehensible and full of surprises .
Jorge Amado
#77. What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#78. Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.
John Jakes
#79. 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
#80. With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.
Kealan Patrick Burke
#81. I like surprises. I like mystery. I'm not the kind of person who goes to the writer's room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don't tell me anything!
Josh Holloway
#82. I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#83. Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it's like one epic Easter egg hunt. You're always finding these little surprises around every corner.
Gayle Forman
#84. Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.
Jen Calonita
#85. I hate it when therapy jumps out and surprises you like that.
C.J. Daugherty
#86. here are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments. And he knows mine.
Lia Riley
#87. 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
#88. I like having surprises in the morning for each other on the bedside table, so when you wake up you have something immediately. Just like a little teaser. Then I think it's nice to stay in bed all morning. It's simple.
Evan Rachel Wood
#89. What's the matter, don't you like surprises?"
"I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes.
Stuart Woods
#90. I'd always loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotted, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just without the surprises.
Morgan Matson
#91. I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
Catherine Deneuve
#92. Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.
Mary McCarthy
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