Quotes About Surprise

It's awesome to have the fans come up and say, 'Hey, Duck, what's up?' When people call me Devlin, it catches me by surprise.

Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you're outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much.

I was clearly the singing and dancing actor. When I was picked for serious roles, it came to me as a surprise.

I saw what I thought was a donkey posing on the stairs but much to my surprise it was Kim Kardashian.

I always get recognised and that always takes me by surprise. Its not something I ever expect or get used to.

Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.

We like to keep things as a surprise. It's always better like that.

It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take on a role within a theater company as a writer and director. I found to my surprise that I really enjoyed it as well.

It's not a surprise to us that every large technology company is trying to build an offering like AWS' because it's such a good value proposition for customers.

I had a big group of harpists from Japan in October of 1973 ready to tour the country and the Yom Kippur War took us all by surprise. There were no concerts, no shows - there was no way for them to even leave because the airport was closed. I had to return the money. I had paid them in advance.

I really believe that if people put everything they have into something, they can really surprise themselves most of the time.

Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.

I think my fans would probably be surprised to know I'm not insane - I'm not a crazy person in real life. I'm a pretty low-key dude. I like chilling at home and playing with my dog.

The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!

I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

If we discovered, emphatically, that ghosts were real, I probably wouldn't be surprised.

When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a long list of how often I've been surprised by the richness of nature.

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.