Surprise Me Quotes - Page 4

• Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

  Edie Falco

  Jobs, Cancer, Diagnosis

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• Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Falling In Love, People, World

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• The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

  Willem de Kooning

  Eye, Hands, Drawing

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• ...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on

  Samuel Beckett

  Pain, Doors, Long

  The Unnamable (1959)

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• I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Lying, Men, Clouds

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• Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don’t have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Thinking, Victory

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• Surprise me, Atlantean. Attack. This isn’t a dance party. (Takeshi) You know, this isn’t building my confidence. In fact, I think I’m just going to lie here for a bit and take in some sun. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Party, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres

  Jeaniene Frost

  Zero, Badass, Indulge In

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• I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Thinking, Done, Records

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• Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Worry, Ugly, Way

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.175, Canongate Books

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• I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

  Rita Dove

  Surprise, Happened

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• Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

  Minnie Driver

  Hollywood, Way, Actresses

  "'I dropped down to 7st and cried a lot': Minnie Driver on how Hollywood fame made her miserable". Stylist Magazine, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 8, 2012.

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• I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

  Mark Twain

  Growing Up, Maturity, People

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• Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Memories, Thinking

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• I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …‘But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, I Like You, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.101, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Abe's face came back into focus. "Greetings, Zmey," I said weakly. Somehow, him being here didn't surprise me. "Nice of you to slither on in." He shook his head, wearing a rueful smile. "I think you've outdone me when it comes to sneaking around dark corners. I thought you were on your way back to Montana." "Next time, make sure you write a few more details into your bargains. Or just pack me up and send me back to the U. S. For real." "Oh," he said, "that's exactly what I intend to do." He kept smiling as he said it, but somehow, I had a feeling he wasn't joking.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Nice, Writing

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• Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Husband, Spring, Past

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Nothing human surprises me.

  Charles Willeford

  Surprise, Humans

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• There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Love You, Thinking

  "InStyle’s June Cover Girl Is... Taylor Swift!". Interview with Sharon Clott Kanter, www.instyle.com. May 17, 2011.

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• What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

  Christopher Parker

  Numbers, People, Giving

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• Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate it.

  LaVell Edwards

  Appreciation, Careers, Long

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• My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Mean, Keys, Grace

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

  Aldo Rossi

  Technique, Architecture, Surprise

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• Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.

  Frederick Buechner

  Pain, May, Today

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• Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Looks, Penguins, Surprise

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