Quotes About Surprise

We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

The thing that has appealed to me most about this career is getting to encounter and interact with the unexpected.

Feelings come at really unexpected moments to all of us, and they come so fast.

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.

A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.

I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.