Quotes with surprise

  • 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.
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  • About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
  • For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
  • I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
  • The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
  • The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
  • Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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  • Adolf Hitler Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Salman Rushdie The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Francis Bacon A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alan Thicke About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Beeban Kidron At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bill Bruford Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Bryan Callen Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • George S. Patton Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Billy Zane Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.
    Billy Zane
     
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  • Alice Walker Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Alice Walker Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bo Burnham For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Andy Rooney I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Anthony Trollope I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Ben Stein I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
    Hypocrisy, Democrat Style. The American Spectator
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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