Quotes About Surprise

What sort of adventures?" I ask him, astonished. "All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believed the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.