It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.
Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.
It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.
When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.
One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.
The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.
Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.
Schooling ain't life. " "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
There's some [films] where I do a lot of homework and then there's some, where it's supposed to take you by surprise. So you kind of just want to get in there and have everything take you by surprise rather than just have him tell you how everything went down.
Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it. ' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.
Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had dispatched, allegedly. I think he's quite a forbidding presence, too forbidding a presence to be charming. But he's interesting.
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.