Surprise Quotes - Page 33

• The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Roles, Actors, Satisfaction

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• My love can't be purchased Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.

  Nina Dobrev

  Wells, Best Gift, Has Beens

  Twitter post from May 30, 2013

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• I love the surprise element of being a mom.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Mom, Being A Mom, Elements

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• You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

  Nan Kempner

  Looks, Want, Awful

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• It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in this real-world guide to job success and survival. The surprise is how urgent it is for every author, client, and boss who works with editors to embrace Carol Fisher Saller's 'subversiveness'-or suffer the next outcome from hell.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Jobs, Real, Knowing

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• The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on...This was the greatest surprise for everyone.

  Max Delbruck

  Children, Dna, Years

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• We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Animal, Agency

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

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• No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Expression, America, Long

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• Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

  James R Newman

  Jobs, Adventure, Math

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик

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• Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.

  Tony Snow

  Dog, Laughing, Bigs

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• The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Certain

  "Staking Out The Globe" by David M. Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. February 21, 1988.

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• The news of Mr. Breitbart’s death came as a surprise to me when I was informed of it this morning. My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart’s family as they cope during this very difficult time.

  Shirley Sherrod

  Morning, Prayer, Difficult Times

  "Andrew Breitbart, conservative activist and blogger, dies aged 43" by Andrew Breitbart, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

  Scott Yanow

  Writing, Eric, Helping

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• Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

  Craig Benzine

  Bird, Poop, Mouths

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• 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

  Change, Needs, Actors

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• closes, another one opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. ... Feel yourself grow and expand as you go through every experience, and look for the reason for it.

  Eileen Caddy

  Uplifting, Doors, Looks

  "Opening Doors Within: 365 Daily Meditations from Findhorn".

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• The biggest surprise watching video on the tiny, 2.5-inch screen (320 by 240 pixels) is completely immersive. Three unexpected factors are at work. First, the picture itself is sharp and vivid, with crisp action that never smears the screen is noticeably brighter than on previous iPods. Second, because the audio is piped directly into your ear sockets, it has much higher fidelity and presence than most peoples TV sets. Finally, remember that a 2.5-inch screen a foot from your face fills as much of your vision as a much larger screen thats across the room.

  David Pogue

  Ipods, Feet, Vision

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• 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

  Ghouls, Keys, Two

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• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

  Jim Butcher

  Healing, Love Is, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Theory, Rationalism

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• Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.

  Carol Kent

  Christian, Growth, Abundance

  Carol Kent (1990). “Secret passions of the Christian woman”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some readers the very idea that vaccines are anything but wonderful and life-saving may come as a surprise, and it's not a very pleasant one. After all, the general population pictures vaccines as one of modern medicine's best and brightest moments, saving literally millions from the scourge of diseases like poliomyelitis and smallpox.

  Richard Pitcairn

  Names, Ideas, Vaccines

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• It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

  George Santayana

  Song, Art, Math

  George Santayana (2014). “Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Character, Play

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• I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do a horror movie. I took the concept and made a romantic adventure film. I like action heroes who don't take themselves too seriously. I wanted to make everyone take the mummy seriously, but it couldn't just be a guy in bandages. But the main thing was to build in surprises. That's one of the great things you can do with special effects.

  Stephen Sommers

  Hero, Adventure, Guy

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