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Texture and pattern should function as a surprise. — Robert Denning

I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back. — T.H. White

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise. — Bryan Brown

Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible. — Josephus Daniels

I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody! — Glenn Beck

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us. — Twyla Tharp

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people. — Christian Louboutin

The element of surprise is vastly overrated in any relationship. — Molly Harper

Elizabeth: "Maybe he'll surprise you."
Meghann: "Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap. — Kristin Hannah

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Surprise, surprise! I have a band! I'm really excited that we have a song on the soundtrack of 'American Reunion' for that very reason. — Thomas Ian Nicholas

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization. — Robert Shea

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. — George Armitage Miller

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us. — Stephen Hawking

O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet. — Alice Meynell

Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise. — John Irving

If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. — Jay Maisel

The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise. — Peter Green

I love the surprise element of being a mom. — Jessica Capshaw

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. — Horace

Graymark," he said. "What a nice surprise." Luke stood up. "If you're surprised, you're an idiot," he said. "I didn't exactly arrive quietly. — Cassandra Clare

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do. — Mary Lee Settle

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise. — Kenneth Fisher

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me. — Larry Gagosian

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me. — David Hobson

Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121) — Gail Giles

There's not that many surprises that you get in life. — Rockmond Dunbar

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. — Rebecca Solnit

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. — Boris Pasternak

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord
preferred to live with whores
& sinners, seeing
I go in for that myself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. — Derek Walcott

Letting someone you don't really like surprise you is evolved, — Mary-Louise Parker

In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it. — Amit Ray

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

Surprise is the enemy of prudence. — Goliarda Sapienza

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life. — Natalia Vodianova

I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question. — Wayne Rogers

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience ... — Joseph Joubert

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.' — Stuart Scott

It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. — John Waters

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable. — Andrew Mehrtens

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

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity. — Gueorgui Pinkhassov

Since learning causes our brains to grow new synapses, I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise. — Gloria Steinem

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. — Vladimir Nabokov

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors. — John C. Bogle

Every time i think i 've got you figured out, Noah, you surprise me. — Katie McGarry

A traveler's most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise. — David Dale

I won't surprise attack your face. — Jamie McGuire

Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise; — Anthony Powell

This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!" — Milton Berle

Nothing takes God by surprise, not even cancer. — Shirley Corder

To nobody's surprise, Professor Sprout started their lesson by lecturing them about the importance of O.W.L.s. Harry — J.K. Rowling

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow. — Sidney Jourard

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise. — Noam Chomsky

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. — Jeff Tweedy

Life is not a series of events charged with elements of contrast, contradiction, or surprise. It is a deep, coherent, and unfaltering process. — Percy C. Ainsworth

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up. — Miguel Syjuco

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline. — Ian Rankin

Surprise, surprise - the good guys don't always win. Sometimes, they're lucky if they just get to keep on being the good guys. — Anthony Breznican

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

Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise. — P. J. Soles

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me. — Louis L'Amour

giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow. — Richard Dawkins

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us. — Nick Flynn

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise. — Jack Nicholson

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises. — Michael Scott

God in his infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise. — Langston Hughes

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self. — Barry Bonds

Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me? — Cassandra Clare

It may surprise you that the primary lifetime threat to your child is his or her own anger. — Gary Chapman

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school. — Pat Boone

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say. — Teresa Heinz

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)- ... — Junot Diaz

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know. — Joyce Carol Oates

The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You — Ruskin Bond

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American. — Elaine Sciolino

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears. — Mia Couto

My breath caught in wonder and surprise and I remembered that during the darkest of hours, God is. — Lisa Samson

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones. — Jean Dubuffet

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. — Criss Jami

Surprise is the essence of attack! — Georgette Heyer

The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way. — Ken Poirot

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? — Richard Bach

Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise. — Billy Graham

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack. — Takeda Nobushige

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to. — Paulo Coelho

Good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will. — Lisa Scottoline

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos

Nothing about me surprises me. — Honore De Balzac

I wish you'd stop writing people off before they have a chance to surprise you. — Heidi Cullinan

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does. — Seth Godin

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy — Sun Tzu

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion." — Martin Mull

It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things. — Daniel Lanois

move because he won't, taking us both by surprise. My lips mold to his with ferocity, and I pull him in. — Victoria Aveyard

And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem. — Chip Heath

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish. — Sanaa Lathan