Quotes About Surprise

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.

For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

I like when life is sort of spontaneous. I like the unexpected. I'm comfortable in that!

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

I'm so proud of 'Underground' because it's this thriller; it's this action- adventure. It's unexpected. People think it's gonna one be one thing - they think it's gonna be very depressing and downtrodden - and it's empowering.

We always love actors taking unexpected turns.

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

You really want to keep ringing the changes - you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you're going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.

The challenge in any kind of storytelling, as far as I know, it is, you're looking for the moment that is completely unexpected, but at the same time, you think to yourself, 'Of course, that's the only way it could have gone.' It has to feel like it's the truth of it.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

For me, fashion should always be evolving so it remains exciting and unexpected.

Wannabe was so huge. So big. So unexpected.

My career definitely took an unexpected change in direction when it came to 'Here Lies Love.'

Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was just forming a band.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

'Masti' did so well. It was unexpected and clicked very well with masses.

Having a child has been the most unexpected privilege, as I spent so long on my own thinking it would never happen.

Unfortunately, in football, sometimes you think that things might go one way, but eventually, they take an unexpected turn or head in another direction.

A film in Bollywood was truly unexpected.

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected and not just do the same thing you've always seen. But of course, you're gonna see some of the same things you've seen before. It's part of the deal.

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.