Quotes About Surprise

When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

It was funny to run into girls I knew after the movie came out because they would say, 'I saw you on 'Magic Mike,' but there was this look of embarrassment. It was very cute.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

I did Jools Holland, which was bonkers because it's an institution, and as a family, we've all been into it our whole lives, and then I did Hootenanny. I took my mum and dad along, and they were sat there next to Gregory Porter and Chaka Khan. My dad was just laughing, like he couldn't believe it was real.

You know, who would have thought a guy from Canada playing at a club like Bayern Munich and winning the Champions League? I never could have guessed it.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

My musical career was an accident.

I never thought I would be doing musical theatre.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,' or, like, 'My friend took me to this show, and I've never been to a jazz show before, but, man, I'm so happy I came. I can't wait to go home and see more.' And you can feel it in the crowd, too. You can see the groups of people that don't really know what to expect.

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

Football works in mysterious ways.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

Naked dudes are inherently funny.

Yeah. An old flame just showed up to kick my ass. It's been that kind of day.

He pulled the tiller and shouted the words, Ready about ... LEE HO! I stared at him incredulously. What sort of things was that for one sensible adult to shout at another?

our journey toward truth is often a winding and convoluted path and what we find at the end is not always the truth we expected at the beginning of the journey.

The "miracle of birth" was actually pretty disgusting, Arthas thought. He hadn't realized there'd be so much…goo involved.

What? He can't possibly mean to—

Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that isn't on the list. Surrendering to surprise is the practice of balancing structure and openness.

Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.

But someone had been in here, probably a large African-American fairy godfather, for laid out on the bed was a dress