Quotes of: Surprising Keyword

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

Elayne Boosler

I'm quite surprised at how out of control I can be on stage because, actually, I find I like to be in control in life. It's quite freeing, really.

Michelle Dockery

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham

I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!

Cara Delevingne

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.

James Burrows

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Francis Bacon

When we tag ourselves with a particular label, we mustn’t be surprised when we attract others looking for our particular item.

Charles F. Glassman

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

Christopher Lee

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

J. J. Abrams

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

John Barry

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.

Eric Idle

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

Brendon Urie

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

Chuck Close

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Gary Hopkins

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

Jon Ronson

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

John Slattery

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

Doris Lessing

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Joe Dante

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

Jesse Helms

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy