Surprise Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Sky, White, Sea

  29 Copy quote

• It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Circles, Dancing

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Artist, Hip Hop, Hot

  "Comic-Con: Jamie Foxx Talks DJANGO UNCHAINED, His Toughest Scene to Shoot, Tarantino’s Musical Dialogue and Doing a Song for the Soundtrack". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is "How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?" Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.

  Matt Groening

  People, Cartoon, Want

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mom, Teaching, Drawing

  17 Copy quote

• I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  Zaha Hadid

  East London, Driving, Driven

  12 Copy quote

• None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

  Vaclav Havel

  Faith, Hero, Events

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

  Jesse Helms

  Mad, North Carolina, Newspapers

  16 Copy quote

• 21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

  Jonah Hill

  Guests, Made, Streets

  "Jonah Hill ALLEN GREGORY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving, Feelings, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Ivory, Pleasant Surprises, Ends

  17 Copy quote

• I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Stories, Elements, Way

  4 Copy quote

• When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

  Vanilla Ice

  Baby, Home, Utah

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

  William James

  Needs, Way, Companionship

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.269, Booklassic

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Hindsight, Bias

  10 Copy quote

• Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

  Heidi Klum

  Being Happy, Issues, Wells

  9 Copy quote

• I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

  James Lovelock

  Nuclear, Campaigns, Heard

  85 Copy quote

• One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Things I Love, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Thinking, Inspire, One Day

  4 Copy quote

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

  Sam Mendes

  Thinking, Competition, Might

  7 Copy quote

• I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

  Robert Morgan

  New York, Cities, Long

  53 Copy quote

• I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it's so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there.

  Brittany Murphy

  Fun, Thinking, People

  7 Copy quote

• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Girl, Boys, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

  Susan Orlean

  Phones, Cells, Long

  "Hello, It's Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source