Surprise Quotes

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
Oscar Niemeyer

Light, Wanted, Engineers

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.
Sonny Rollins

Again, Water, Flowers

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
Pat Boone

School, May, High

I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.
Tom Perrotta

Perfect, Write, Themselves

'The Good Wife' was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I've had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of 'work begets work' actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced.
Carrie Preston

Work, Time, Good

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.
Sanaa Lathan

Experience, Cherish, Complete

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
Jesse Helms

May, United, Nations

I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.
Steve Burns

Children, Mean, Down

We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!
William Petersen

Success, Good, Movies

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.
Joe Dante

Mean, Working, Kids

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.
Gloria Stuart

Question, Nominated

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

Caught, Awards, Totally

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

Stress, May, Through

I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.
Rod Steiger

American, Speak, Chance

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.
Donnie Wahlberg

Matter, Material, Project

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
Arielle Dombasle

Yourself, Continue

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
Jonny Lee Miller

Whole, Looking, Point

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Tavis Smiley

Love, Country, Said

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.
Marvin Minsky

True, Happen, Same

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
Natalia Vodianova

Life, Childhood, Gave

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

Beauty, Friends, Try

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
Penelope Wilton

Life, History, Tell

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
Pierre Schaeffer

Music, Forgetting, Started

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
Ron Ben-Israel

Birthday, Put, She

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.
Shawn Ryan

Good, Sometimes, Stars

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.
John Redwood

Far, Fast, Appear

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
Ruth Warrick

Good, Fun, Shock

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
Bishop Robert South

Experience, Wonder, Stops

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

Makes, Though, Felt

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.
Joseph Kosinski

Able, Days, Tricky

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