Quotes About Surprise

Everybody believes they can win now. That's why there are so many upsets in the Grand Slams.

The reason my management get upset with me the most is that they don't know what's going to come out my mouth.

The shorter the game is then the bigger the chance of an upset.

But you can never take anything for granted in the FA Cup, because an upset is always only just around the corner, and I have experienced those too.

I will say - and not to sound arrogant - people would have been upset if I failed my cash-in. Yeah, it would not have been a good move. I didn't really think that was going to happen, but you never know. It's always a possibility.

You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, 'Hey, can you come and join us now?' Yeah, that turned everything upside down.

Nothing turned the NXT Universe upside down like The Undisputed Era's debut.

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb.

I really didn't think this was going to be a success. We did the first three episodes and I said to Adam, 'I can't see this going anywhere. I've already used up all my urban legends.'

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all!

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

I come home from work early one day, and I see a guy jogging down the street in his underwear. I ask him, "Why are you jogging in your underwear?" He says, "You came home from work early".

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.