Surprise Quotes - Page 40

• For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  "The Figure a Poem Makes" by Robert Frost, 1939.

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• A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something.

  Barbara Johnson

  Life, Hurt, Laughter

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• 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

  Missing You, Nice, Lasts

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• Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Agriculture

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• It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Inspire, Delight

  Mary Roach (2014). “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 Hughes

  Beauty, New York, Cities

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• 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

  Looks, Festivals, Berlin

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• Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

  Lionel Richie

  Thank You, Song, Careers

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• I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Fighting, Winning

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• We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Silence, Needs, Withdrawal

  "Oscars 2015 Speeches: The Winners of the Winners" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Getting Older, Age, Young

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

  Audrey Tautou

  Want, Pleasant Surprises

  "The Secret Life Of Audrey Tautou". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 29, 2004.

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• It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Believe, Answers, Bigs

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• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  Hans Blix

  Military, People, Biological Warfare

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• They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

  Mary Wesley

  Disappointment, May, Enchanting

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• With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Years, Passing, Prove

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• Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Judgment, Stores

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• I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

  Larry Niven

  Running, Believe

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.360, Macmillan

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• Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Nature, Exception To The Rule, Giving

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• I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

  Chris Patten

  Cutting, Thinking, Vulgarity Is

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• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Endless, Expected, Procession

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• That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

  Peter Bart

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• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  Lance Henriksen

  Small Moments, Scripts, Fantasy

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• It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Morning, Thinking, House

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• I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

  Bob Barker

  Natural Talent, Care, May

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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