Surprise Quotes

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism - being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer's character.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

Frying pans! Who knew, right?

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

its fun to do the unexpected.

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These.

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

Life is a series of surprises.

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

Always be a little unexpected.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.