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Quotes About Surprise

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
~ Neil Gaiman
Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!
~ Jeff Belanger
I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
~ Joseph Kosinski
For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived
~ Cameron Dokey
Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe he'll shoot at us again. I was hoping someone would shoot at me today. That was the first thing I said when I got up: Boy, I hope I get shot at today.
~ Janet Evanovich
I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.
~ Candace Bushnell
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
~ Sophocles
Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.
~ N. T. Wright
I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
~ Steven Wright
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
~ Steven Wright
I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
~ Steven Wright
After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.
~ Chic Murray
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
~ Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. 'Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!' she said. So I suggested the kitchen.
~ Red Skelton
I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don't know how I got there.
~ Steven Wright
Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.
~ Steven Wright
I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.
~ Emo Philips
For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
~ Steve Martin
People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.
~ Gwen Ifill
I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.
~ Russell Howard
I've never been to a hotel with a rotating restaurant on top, but one time I took my girlfriend to a merry-go-round, and I gave her a burrito.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.
~ Michael Chabon
A hooker once told me she had a headache.
~ Rodney Dangerfield