Surprises Quotes

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford

Great, Greatest, Find

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
Chuck Palahniuk

Book, Moment, Turns

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen

Often, Foolish, Pleasure

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life, Means, Story

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner

Person, Him, Drama

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
Loretta Lynn

Life, Time, Long

I like surprises.
Christopher Hitchens

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
Danica McKellar

Love, Women, Romantic

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau

Live, Nothing, Regret

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.
Rick Warren

God, Universe, Creator

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
Catherine Deneuve

Movies, Regret, Find

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
Eric Cantona

Career, Sometimes, Second

Life is full of surprises.
John Major

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
Danica McKellar

Hope, Medical, May

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.
Ron Fournier

Human, Moment, Honest

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.
Kim Wilde

Life, Nothing, Full

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Experience, Simple, Important

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
Jon Meacham

Great, History, Remember

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy

Eyes, Before, Liberty

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
John Dyer

Love, Time, Sea

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card

Mind, Questions, Rarely

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
Jacques Derrida

Moment, Whatever, Photograph

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.
Brett Favre

Nothing, Anymore

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
James Taylor

Around, Pushing

Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.
John Engler

Time, Perfect, Sometimes

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Jean Rostand

Past, Two, Again

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.
Liz Phair

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.
Andrew Cuomo

Politics, Government, Nothing

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
Rob Zombie

Hockey, Since, Kid

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.
Jamie Foxx

Single, Him, Keep

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