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Quotes About Surprise

There's a lot of fighters that pop up out of the blue that you never heard of. They just don't have the management or the promotion team or the spotlight, you know, to be seen. That's the ones you've gotta watch out for.
~ Errol Spence Jr.
The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
We like to be involved vaguely in the creative process so we know what's going on and we have some input, but actually, 'Top Gear' is at its best when the producers spring something on you and we respond naturally to it. The more you know, the less realistic your reactions.
~ Chris Harris
It's nice to squash people's expectations.
~ Lauren Mayberry
We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.
~ Keith Jarrett
If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.
~ Jeffrey Tate
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
~ Walter Cronkite
I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
~ Nadia Comaneci
You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
~ J. R. Smith
Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something.
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
~ James Patterson
Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife
~ Alanis Morissette
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
~ Billy Wilder
I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"
~ Emo Philips
This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"
~ Milton Berle
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?
~ Christopher Titus
A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
~ E. V. Lucas
A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."
~ Frank Carson
It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.
~ James Stewart
It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?
~ Brandon Sanderson
God laughs at men's plans.
~ Larry Gatlin
The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.
~ Peter Ustinov