Surprise Quotes

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

~ Joseph Addison

Art must take reality by surprise.

~ Françoise Sagan

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

~ Vanessa Carlton

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

~ George S. Patton

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

~ Boy George

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

~ Boris Pasternak

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

~ Will Estes

The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

~ Ophelia Lovibond

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

~ Tracy Chapman

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

~ Jessica Savitch

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

~ Robert Pinsky

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

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.

~ Sean Bean

Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.

~ Pamela Meyer

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

~ Ellen Burstyn

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

~ James Fallows

The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.

~ Émile Durkheim