Quotes About Surprise

Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

Don't worry, keep at it, you will soon shock the world

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did he tell you what kind of gun?' 'No,' she replied. 'He doesn't even know I'm going to shoot him.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new.

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'.

If Clausewitz is right, no one should develop a strategy without taking into account the effects of organizational friction. Yet we continue to be surprised and frustrated when it manifests itself. We tend to think everything has gone wrong when in fact everything has gone normally.

The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.

I've talked to Molina three times today, and he wants me to pull the rabbit out of the hat now".

behind ourself, concealed—should startle most," wrote Emily Dickinson

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

Because of that, the buzz and whisper is different. Both more hushed and more thrilled, like a formation of Oprah Winfreys are about to parachute down through the clouds, giving cars out to you, and you, and also you.

But to his surprise, just before daylight, he found himself being aroused from a slumber he had not known he had achieved.

Consider Norbert Mayer's poem Just now A rock took fright When it saw me It escaped By playing dead

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Mystics find themselves delighted in being surprised again and again by the many loving manifestations of God . . . "Surprise" is one of the hallmarks of a true manifestation of the divine. This may be because God wants us to learn and relearn more deeply that his presence is a gift that cannot be earned or controlled. Or, it may simply be that God wants to surprise his beloved.

Surprise your children today by doing some unexpected act of kindness. As they take note of your gesture, ask them to do something kind for someone else that is also unexpected.