Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
We've been growing our readership every month, and we're kind of like, where are they all coming from? This is wonderful! And I think one of the best surprises was that you hear so often that young women don't care about feminism, that young women don't identify as feminists. But really, the majority of our readers are young women. So to see so many young people kind of get involved and really take to Feministing. com was a really exciting thing.
America. . the international Jekyll and Hyde. . . the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises
[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.
History is full of surprises.
My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.
What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
Nothing human surprises me.
Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.
I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page
Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme. . . They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. . . . The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!
Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.
I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.