Quotes About Surprise

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

In movies, everyone is always surprised the door is unlocked.

Today I found an old friend.

Today I found an old friend. –Ed Burns via Purple Violets

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.