For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

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.

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad...

It’s always a surprise when the numbers come up. You don’t know what to expect.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Anytime I’m involved with anything that’s well-received, it’s a surprise to me.

…everyone knows that road, the one leading out of town into a deep green expanse of pastures and old farmhouses, which at first makes it seem like you’re entering a fairy tale, something sweet and...

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

If they aren’t real enough to surprise me, then they aren’t real enough to go on the page.

How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Mark has been a pleasant surprise for us. He has really responded well; the keys, the reads, he’s got great ability, just his overall presence. It’s good because he can now make plays both ways.

You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so!

If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they...

The euro has upside risk should economic data such as German retail sales give the market a surprise.

Dip your serenity in serendipity and let the surprise be your prize

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

Do you mean walk around? Because that’s what I actually did. I usually crouch more when I sneak — and then I kill someone.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do – but kids particularly.

Humans were always surprising me.

When you look at who is funding this (campaign), it’s no great surprise. That coalition (of labor unions and environmentalists) has worked together in the past.

Stop giving complaints to people about what you can’t do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It’ll amaze you; you’ll see yourself doing amazingly!

Those who earn your trust by surprise will leave surprisingly

Truly? That whole determined, dangerous saunter across the room was for me? In that case, would you mind going back and doing it all over again? Slowly this time, and with feeling.

If we have a key going into that game, we have to handle the pressure. We also told the kids we have to play defense. If they can’t score, they don’t get in the press....

Roasted Roadkill and Hitchhiker’s Surprise” (this recipe is a secret concoction handed down from my great grandfather to my grandfather, who told it to my dad just before he ran him over).

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn’t believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling.”That’s more like it,” Nico said. “Let’s turn this tide!

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, “surprise” is the optimistic solution.

When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn’t prove there’s a loving God; but if there is, isn’t it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?

I’m justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is …I am their mistake.

You’re right. The fact that the entire party of fifty guests caught you and Jill Moench kissing in the closet was a complete misunderstanding.” Theo snorted, turning to Penny, “His girlfriend certainly got a surprise...

You don’t have to be surprised when the end comes – just read the Word of God and get the full scoop!

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

It wakes us right up.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, ‘Well, are you a Republican...

They did at the time say that funding would be short term and that they would be looking to refinance. We’re now coming up against that period. It was assumed that it wouldn’t be have...

—Elle m’a pas recconue!—C’est parce qu’elle vous a jamais vue.

This totally took me by surprise.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

It was quite a surprise. They are ecstatic. The girls were screaming, laughing and crying. There were 53 teams in our division and it took a lot of hard work to win.

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.

Nancy was a writer with a lot of soul. That’s something that most critics either don’t have the opportunity to share with you or just can’t. She had the kind of humanity that is embracing....

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I...

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.