Top 100 Quotes About Surprise Me
#1. The fact that ghosts are real doesn't surprise me-I've always been a believer in that area. It's the realization that there may be something out there, something most can't see, that is able to kill.
Brandy Nacole
#2. It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.
Charles Colson
#3. It doesn't surprise me that people can't see beyond my image. It's amazing, but I can understand it. That's what image is for. But it's never a problem for me. It's only a problem for them. I don't really care. I do what I want regardless.
Grace Jones
#4. Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
Frederick Buechner
#5. They don't understand why I want to take such a risk. These reactions don't surprise me. A transformation, especially one that is deliberately sought, is often perceived as something disloyal, threatening.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#6. First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
Denis Diderot
#7. We try to be formed and held and kept by him, but instead he offers us freedom. And now when I try to know his will, his kindness floods me, his great love overwhelms me, and I hear him whisper, Surprise me.
Ron Hansen
#8. I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
Rachel Caine
#9. That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.
Josephine Tey
#10. Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.
Jodi Picoult
#11. I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.
Maya Angelou
#12. It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.
Monica Bellucci
#13. I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
Alejandro Amenabar
#14. Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.
Emma Watson
#15. When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.
Ruben Studdard
#16. You're stifling me brother! Can I not have a moment to myself? I swear it wouldn't surprise me to find you sitting atop me one day as I do my morning business in the privy, like some great mother hen!" Elf
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
Kevin Kline
#18. He likes to surprise me by acting human from time to time.
Karina Halle
#19. One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
George R R Martin
#20. In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about
which things numbered in the dozens right now
or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.
C.E. Murphy
#21. There are very few things that surprise me.
Judi Dench
#22. I judge wisely ... as if nothin ever surprise me,
Loungin, between two pillars of ivory.
I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece.
My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.
Killah Priest
#23. Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.
Sherilyn Fenn
#24. Elizabeth: "Maybe he'll surprise you."
Meghann: "Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.
Kristin Hannah
#25. Went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted. "Surprise me", I said. So he showed me a naked picture of my wife.
Rodney Dangerfield
#26. Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going to find that going around.
Stephen King
#27. I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.
Larry Gagosian
#28. Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to ... But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.
Mark Oliver Everett
#29. My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#30. The things you have done for me - to help me, support me, surprise me, and make me happy - go above and beyond what any person deserves. You are all I need. I love you and I like you.
Amy Poehler
#31. I'm going into my bedroom so I can get my own toy out. This is getting to be too much for me. I'm a simple man, Faith."
Now that did surprise me. "You have toys?"
"Yeah, I call it my cock.
Michelle Craig
#32. Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.
Minnie Driver
#33. I sometimes think I know you entirely," I said. "You know me better than anyone ever has," Susan said. "And yet you're quite secretive," I said. "You surprise me often.
Robert B. Parker
#34. Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried
Yogi Berra
#35. When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.
Todd Solondz
#36. Surprise me, Atlantean. Attack. This isn't a dance party. (Takeshi)
You know, this isn't building my confidence. In fact, I think I'm just going to lie here for a bit and take in some sun. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween.
Sasha Grey
#38. The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
Jay McInerney
#39. It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
Meles Zenawi
#40. I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.
John Cusack
#41. [Darlin'] it does not surprise me that someone with as much passion as you would feel the music in your bones.
Kallypso Masters
#42. it wouldn't surprise me if in a little while they begin to worship Leopold the Second the way they worship their fetishes and hideous objects." Where
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#43. Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.
Patrick Ewing
#44. Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.
John Vanderslice
#45. The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
Maureen O'Hara
#46. I could live with you forever and still you would surprise me. Gabriel's Redemption
Sylvain Reynard
#47. Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.
Arsene Wenger
#48. You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?
Agatha Christie
#49. The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.
Willem De Kooning
#50. Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number ... I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#51. I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream.
Dean Koontz
#52. [F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.
Stephen Baxter
#53. The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place.
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Danilo Kis
#54. To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
Lasse Hallstrom
#56. Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband."
"He's not dead, Nana."
Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.
Nicholas Sparks
#58. I play video games. Stars shooting out of trees really don't surprise me.
Wendy White
#59. Women make up half the world; and I thought I had reached the stage where there was nothing in a woman's nakedness to surprise me. But I felt now as if I was experiencing anew, and seeing a woman for the first time.
V.S. Naipaul
#60. Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky.
-Kira to Mencheres
Jeaniene Frost
#61. I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
Ben Kingsley
#62. OK cosmos, I could use some good news. Go on, surprise me.
William Meikle
#63. It shouldn't surprise me that men continue to think of grand new ways to kill one another, and with greater precision ...
Alexandra Bracken
#64. When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.
Jenny Lewis
#65. Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."
James Cromwell
#66. Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord
preferred to live with whores
& sinners, seeing
I go in for that myself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#67. I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.
Louis L'Amour
#68. 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
#69. I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney
#70. I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
Margaret Halsey
#71. In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.
Rio Ferdinand
#72. Beauty is not a hoax ... Come on, I say to the creek, surprise me; and it does, with each new drop. Beauty is real. I would never deny it; the appalling thing is that I forget it (271).
Annie Dillard
#74. Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.
Ellen DeGeneres
#75. If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know, and it's what I love. I like when the actors are really partners and I want them to be excited and I want them to surprise me. I don't want them to be puzzle pieces.
John Cameron Mitchell
#76. This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"
Milton Berle
#77. I stood there for a moment, playing emotional catch-up.He drove down from the Navarre House just to surprise me with flowers.And not It's -Valentines's Day-and-I-feel-olbligated flowers.These were just-because flowers.
Chloe Neill
#78. I was so thrilled to be in 'Doctor Who.' It's such a wonderful experience, and the fan base that that show has never fails to surprise me.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#79. If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?" Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice.
"Wouldn't surprise me," Heath said.
Kristin Cast
#80. I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.
Veronica Roth
#81. One minute I swear you've found the best biscotti and the next you surprise me with an orgasm on a plate.
S.K. Logsdon
#82. Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
Sue Townsend
#83. I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.
James Arthur
#84. There was a flash, a tingling pain in my head, and then a lingering, dull ache. For some reason that didn't surprise me. You don't gain knowledge without a little pain.
Jim Butcher
#85. Every time i think i 've got you figured out, Noah, you surprise me.
Katie McGarry
#86. My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.
Tullian Tchividjian
#87. It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.
Juan Enriquez
#88. If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.
David Hobson
#89. I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong."
Stephen Colbert
#91. The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
Khaled Hosseini
#92. Logan's gaze swung back to Galen. His eyes crinkled in the corners and a genuine smile appeared. "Did you just make a jest? Galen Shaw, you surprise me." "I have to do something to save myself from Hayden.
Donna Grant
#93. turning my gaze away from the kitchen to the reflection in the window. An old lady. I saw her every day, this woman, but her reflection never ceased to surprise me. When did I become her?
Sarah Jio
#94. When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.
Greg Saunier
#95. I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
James Denton
#96. I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
Rita Dove
#97. That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded.
Kevin Wilson
#98. My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
Natalia Vodianova
#99. I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.
Barack Obama
#100. Had your eyes tested?"
"Yeah. My vision's fine. They've done brain scans, too."
"Did they find anything?"
"Nothing."
"Why doesn't that surprise me?
Zathyn Priest
