Surprise Quotes

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.
Gina Carano

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.
Julianna Margulies

Funny, Experience, Said

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?
Russ Carnahan

Government, Days, Knew

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
Kenny G

Music, Nice, Whole

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Nothing, Two, Film

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes

Movies, Might, Constantly

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Robert Ballard

Black, Sea, Bottom

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.
Ruben Studdard

Person, Different, Same

I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.
Ludacris

Different, Find, Kinds

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
Bonnie Raitt

Respect, Someone, Tell

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
James Weldon Johnson

Great, Mind, Thought

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
Gijs de Vries

Advantage, Terrorists

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.
Victor Garber

Fun, Character, Find

I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.
Rene Redzepi

Put, Tell, Started

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Jeffery Deaver

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
Kate Atkinson

Mind, Writing, Become

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
Tony Gilroy

Interested, Audience, Keeping

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.
Michael Kors

Time, Fashion, Learned

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.
Jeremy Irons

Find, Try, Worth

I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.
Amy Klobuchar

Health, Care, Trying

The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.
Alessandra Ambrosio

Saying, Same, Put

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.
Lucas Papademos

Actually, Happens, Won

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
Kirk Douglas

After, Start, Looking

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.
Gordon Gee

Put, Continue, Curious

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.
John Schlesinger

Forget, Made, Film

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
Holly Near

Great, Living, Pleasure

I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.'
Matt Gonzalez

Political, Understand, Whatever

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.
James Van Der Beek

Best, Past, Put

The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.
Dwyane Wade

Game, Night, After

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
Parker Stevenson

School, Saying, Two

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