Quotes About Surprise

You can run into people, and they can be someone you thought you were never going to hear from again or never gonna talk to again, and they end up becoming dear friends.

After winning so many debut awards, I never thought I would win for 'Ishaqzaade.'

I actually surprised myself because I discovered that I am a pretty decent cook.

I like showing people I can do something they wouldn't have pegged me as being able to do. I've always wanted to defy expectations.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

I delight in embarrassing somebody else.

When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.

I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.

I like crisp words like 'blimey', 'yikes', 'crap' which describe consternation, embarrassment, and sometimes wonderment without making me type so many alphabets.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

I bought my wife a beautiful diamond ring and I even had it engraved - with the price.

I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.

I'm living a very different life than the one I thought I'd be living.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good... but I had no idea just how good.

The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.

Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

I didn't think I would work for Nautica. I never thought in my life I would have a Sprite deal, never in my life did I think I would have a Target deal, ever.

Somebody said 'I've got a task here, can you give it to my girlfriend?' And in the task it said 'Marry me'. It was really emotional and really odd, but that sort of thing's happened a few times, weirdly.

One of the things we're really proud of is that every single task is different, even if there are similarities. You never know what's coming up next.

I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.

Like with MySpace and everything, my dad didn't even know what that was. And then all of a sudden, Twitter came around and he was taking pictures of my new tattoos and posting them and I was like, what's going on? I've never seen this happen before!