See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
Donna Rice

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

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
Alice Meynell

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris Pasternak

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
Gijs de Vries

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
V. S. Naipaul

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
Denise Crosby

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Karl Von Clausewitz

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
James Denton

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
Harvey Cushing

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
Maureen O'Hara

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
F. Murray Abraham

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
Tom Cruise

The Fed chairmanship is not the kind of job where you want to surprise everyone with your choice of a total unknown. You don't want to surprise Wall Street.
David Jones

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

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

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld