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Quotes About Surprise

It still surprises me when I get cast in something. I'm not your, you know, I'm... I remember thinking really early on that you have to look a particular way and I'm quite aware of my look, so I always thought I wouldn't get a lot of screen work.
~ Rachel House
It never surprises me how good Shaun is. Even the coaches are surprised by the things he does and I can understand why. He can strike the ball so hard, yet his legs are only about 12 inches long. But I've been watching him do things like that ever since we were kids. I know what he's capable of.
~ Bradley Wright-Phillips
Content that surprises the audience will attract them.
~ Sara Khan
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
~ Ken Kesey
On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that.
~ Robert Webb
The surprising thing is when we met Judas Priest, they all recognized us. They knew our songs. They knew 'Gimme Chocolate!' and started dancing along with the music.
~ Suzuka Nakamoto
'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.
~ Doug Aitken
Throughout my career, there has always been an element of surprise. Sometimes there are moments of disappointment; sometimes there are moments of surprising success.
~ Michael McDonald
It was surprising, really, that 'Minute by Minute' did as well as it did and as quickly as it did.
~ Michael McDonald
I feel like my whole life, I've had to prove myself to so many people because I'm young and because I'm a female; it's just constant. I'm always surprising people.
~ Alessia Cara
The most surprising thing - and the thing I really didn't think I would have an opportunity to do when I was younger - was I didn't realize the kind of roles I would be able to play. I thought it would be, like, two lines here, the joke.
~ Danielle Macdonald
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
~ Brian Eno
It was surprising for me to get out of town and have little kids ask for my autograph.
~ Fred MacMurray
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.
~ Albert Oehlen
Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.
~ Alex Hirsch
I keep surprising myself with films like 'Mission Kashmir,' 'Albela,' 'Farz,' and 'Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai.' All the roles are very different.
~ Jackie Shroff
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.
~ Henry B. Eyring
You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.
~ Adam Conover
I don't see myself outside Atletico; something very surprising would have to happen.
~ Saul Niguez
It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.
~ Bo Burnham
I just keep surprising myself, I guess.
~ Simone Biles
A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.
~ Melanie Chisholm
So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.
~ Saul Perlmutter
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
~ Howard Hodgkin