Quotes with surprise

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  • Bryan Fuller I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Alejandro Amenabar I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Candice Glover In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Camille Pissarro It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Bill Dedman It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich 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
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Alan Turing Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Lee Trevino My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
    Lee Trevino
    American golfer (1939 - )
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  • George S. Patton Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Vaclav Havel 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
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Barbara Amiel Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Sir John Harvey 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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  • John Keats 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.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Wallace Stevens Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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