Surprise Surprise Quotes

#1. Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise.

David Hume

#2. I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

Glenn Beck

#3. I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

Nicholas Sparks

#4. So let me see? What do I have? Surprise! Surprise!

Philippa Gregory

#5. T.V. found me. I was offered jobs. It came in handy when I started having babies. Just one night's work, and then I could go home. I loved 'Surprise Surprise', but it was hard work. 'Blind Date' was a doddle by comparison.

Cilla Black

#6. Surprise, surprise! I have a band! I'm really excited that we have a song on the soundtrack of 'American Reunion' for that very reason.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#7. She has a sour expression on her face (surprise, surprise)

Kasie West

#8. The only one who wanted to be free. Surprise, surprise. CHAPTER

J.R. Ward

#9. So eventually I instantly backed down and apologised for NOTHING. She was instantly fine - surprise, surprise.

Rae Earl

#10. Surprise, surprise - the good guys don't always win. Sometimes, they're lucky if they just get to keep on being the good guys.

Anthony Breznican

#11. It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#12. Any reason why we couldn't just ditch the condoms from now on?" Surprise

Madeleine Urban

#13. Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Dinah Shore

#14. Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#15. Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

Joe Seneca

#16. He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

Melina Marchetta

#17. A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Robert Baden-Powell

#18. I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

Billy Childish

#19. Motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.

Melanie Shankle

#20. To his surprise he ... discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something ... that you cared about a great deal.

Richard Russo

#21. No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.

Marcus Garvey

#22. At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

Princess Diana

#23. Momma, you're special, Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.

Stephenie Meyer

#24. There's a version of the future in my head where I stay here forever....Bleak, I know. But, still, there's a lot of comfort that comes with knowing how your life is going to turn out. I've never had a surprise turn out in my favor.

Julie Murphy

#25. if you'll take a step of faith to become someone else's miracle, God is going to surprise you in ways you never imagined.

Jamie Larbi

#26. Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

Thomas Sowell

#27. Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Charles Stross

#28. We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

Barbara Kopple

#29. The most pleasant surprise is to get lost in the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#30. For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Bo Burnham

#31. Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Steve Erickson

#32. To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

Orson Scott Card

#33. Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."
To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

Jodi Picoult

#34. Change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it

Spencer Johnson

#35. He took nobody by surprise; there was nobody to take.

Aldous Huxley

#36. You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.

Jen Lancaster

#37. 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

#38. Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick"
-Pippin Took

J.R.R. Tolkien

#39. The end is never a surprise. People say Don't tell me, Don't spoil it, then later say, If only I'd known.

Julia Pierpont

#40. You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.

Satya Bhabha

#41. A very pleasant surprise was that items I thought were naughty but that I enjoyed immensely, like strong coffee, dark chocolate, nuts, high fat yoghurt, wine and cheese, are actually likely to be healthy for me and my microbes.

Tim Spector

#42. I hate you, Jesse!" she reminded him. To her surprise, he smiled a slow, anguished, crooked smile. "I know," he said, and added very softly, "and I still love you.

Heather Graham

#43. The Western media is unleashing such a baseless propaganda, which make us surprise but it reflects on what is in their hearts and gradually they themselves become captive of this propaganda. They become afraid of it and begin to cause harm to themselves.

Osama Bin Laden

#44. Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

Jodi Picoult

#45. She had Nick Lachey's body, a deep voice, very small boobies, and a crew cut. It would have come as no surprise if she had walked into the backyard to compete in a rock-hurling competition after dinner.

Chelsea Handler

#46. I sat silently, trying to imagine Pam blown away. I could do it, but the face I saw lighting up in surprise and wonder was a younger face. It had been quite a few years since I'd been able to generate that sort of wind.

Stephen King

#47. Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence.

Zeruya Shalev

#48. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.

Markus Zusak

#49. But, you know, nobody lives forever. Conceptually these things don't come as a surprise.

Lee Child

#50. I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.

Louis Bayard

#51. I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

Marvin Minsky

#52. Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

Georges St-Pierre

#53. I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

Donald Trump

#54. The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.

Ken Poirot

#55. The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

James Berardinelli

#56. Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Paul Halmos

#57. Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Charles Darwin

#58. The thing with dying was to try to not die and make death take you with surprise.

Gary Paulsen

#59. And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?"
"That's right," I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word.
He shook his head. "You're incredible.

Stephenie Meyer

#60. Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Robert Henri

#61. You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

Michael Arndt

#62. Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

James Van Der Beek

#63. Many massacres have happened when people yell surprise! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

Christopher Titus

#64. Commonplace," said Holmes, though I thought from his expression that he was pleased at my evident surprise and admiration.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#65. Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Virginia Postrel

#66. Seeing your work in something animated, you realize how little you have to do with all of it. It's always a surprise, and its always exciting to see. You never know what is going to happen when you're in that room by yourself.

Jane Lynch

#67. Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

Eric Cantona

#68. Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

Kara Walker

#69. He had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt than if he waited till he was dressed. This did not surprise him, for he was beginning to realize that he was the creature of a God who appreciated the discomfort of his worshipers.

W. Somerset Maugham

#70. To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

Robert Cailliau

#71. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again ...

Graham Chapman

#72. It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are not talking about diversity in any real way. We are talking about brown, black, white versions of the same political ideology.

Richard Rodriguez

#73. I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

Steve Nash

#74. This might surprise you, but one of the best ways to manage your emotions is simply to experience that emotion and let it run its course.

Kim L. Gratz

#75. Then she ripped everything from that well inside her, ripped it out with both hands and her entire raging, hopeless heart.
As she fell, hair whipping her face, Celaena thrust her hands toward the skinwalkers.
"Surprise," she hissed. The world erupted in blue wildfire.

Sarah J. Maas

#76. I was shocked to my marrow the very first time I heard the Church is saying a man can marry a man. What? It is from that shock, that surprise, how is that possible? Is it a kind of experiment or something? They are sick or tired of normal heterosexual relationships? How could that be?

Peter Akinola

#77. I thought of telling her that I was seeing a boy, too, or at least that I'd watched a movie with one, just because I knew it would surprise and amaze her that anyone as disheveled and awkward and stunted as me could even briefly win the affections of a boy.

John Green

#78. THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

Janet Evanovich

#79. We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!

William Petersen

#80. While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

Tim Bishop

#81. He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

Shirley Jackson

#82. The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Sigmund Freud

#83. She tore her eyes open and gasped in surprise when Jake took Devlin's cock in his mouth and began to suck.

Olivia Cunning

#84. 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

#85. He knew that, in the eyes of God, all things are interlinked; he knew that justice does indeed spring in great surprise from the acts and consequences of ages long forgotten; and he knew that love is not broken by time.

Mark Helprin

#86. It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.

Stephen Harper

#87. It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack
in that they will devastate black communities.

Stephen Colbert

#88. It was a surprise party, Parker," America said softly.
"Oh," Parker said, cringing.
"You're throwing me a surprise party?" I asked America.
She shrugged. "It was Trav's idea. It's at Brazil's on Sunday. Six o'clock.

Jamie McGuire

#89. Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.

Kent Allan Rees

#90. The other message I have to share is this: despite difficult times and setbacks, if you persevere, you might surprise yourself.

Kimberly Gatto

#91. Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

Annie Dillard

#92. I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

Taron Egerton

#93. What kind of meal would you like?"
"Something edible would be a pleasant surprise.

Michael J. Sullivan

#94. Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

Ari Marcopoulos

#95. For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.

Viktor Schauberger

#96. Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

Marc Maron

#97. 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

#98. It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

Pat Conroy

#99. the bus was running late, but in truth this was no surprise. Delhi probably got its name from the word 'delay'.

Karl Pilkington

#100. What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

Jeremy Irons