Quotes About Surprise

I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

I thought I was signed up to be on 'Heroes.' It turns out I signed up to be on 'Survivor.'

You never know how life turns out.

When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.

I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.

When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.

Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is very surprised by the way it turns out, since often it turns out better than he expected; often his thought carries further than he reckoned.

It turns out the businessman knows more about how the economy really works than the chattering class. What a shock.

We accidentally gave my boys 'Ninja Turtle' names. I can promise you that Michelangelo and Donatello will not be coming out of me.

I never thought I'd be a TV entrepreneur.

I remember the first time I saw the 'Sugarhill Gang' on Soul Train. I was 11 or 12. I was like, 'What's going on? How did those guys get on national TV?' And then, when I was a little older, a rapper from the neighborhood got a record deal. I was shocked.

It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

On a TV show, you don't know where the character is going.

If you're on a TV show, you never know what's going to happen week to week with your character.