#Surprise Quotes

“Life is a series of surprises.”

“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.”

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

“Frying pans! Who knew, right?”

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

“its fun to do the unexpected.”

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

“Always be a little unexpected.”

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

“Surprise is where creativity comes in.”

“Creativity is a continual surprise.”

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

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

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

“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”

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

“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.”

“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These.”

“Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!”

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

“This is an evening of wonders, indeed!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”