Dream big, I dreamt of being taller when I was a kid, reinforced with flashbacks everyday I exercised diligently and to my surprise, I am still 5 feet tall.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

It’s shocking the things we call love.

The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven’t stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military...

I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. “Surprise attack,” I said.Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me...

Every one of these books is going to have one really big surprise in it to make people say, ‘I didn’t realize that,’

The Book revealed to Muhammad is one and unique of its kind. It has left indelible impression on the hearts of humanity. Nothing can overcome its majesty. The Quran has given new dimensions to human...

I don’t like like like I love love, but I’ll bet we have that in common. You have so much love to give that I’m surprised I haven’t received any of it.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese – to the Europeans’ surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to...

…I don’t ever want to feel that way. Feel as if there are no surprises left. The surprises make life worth living. Expecting nothing, accepting it all. Accepting isn’t the right word. ACKNOWLEDGING it all....

It’s funny how even when you’ve lived with someone your whole life, they can still surprise you.

The outlook is bit of a surprise given the tepid guidance from Dell.

My 30th birthday will be arriving in a few months. It’s not arriving unexpectedly, I just wish it would have given me more of an advance notice, say another 30 years.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he...

I rose swiftly and struck him across the cheek, hard enough to make my palm sting. He gaped at me. ‘I do not want your damned money. I want you to answer me.’ Carefully, he...

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

Ricky just listens. He isn’t shocked. He isn’t surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me....

There can never be surprises in logic.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.

I’ve been very lucky at what’s happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine – anything from a mutated baddy in a comic...

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

It’s as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn’t – which, of course, is pretty often – she is surprised and affronted.

You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth

It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The one benefit of Alzheimer’s is that you can keep giving them the same gift over and over, and it’s always such a surprise.

Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in her ear. Transferred the secret he and her mother had kept for seventeen...

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

It takes me by surprise that after everything I’ve been through, it’s worked out this well at Toledo, … I don’t think it matters where you came from. If you can play, you can play....

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn’t worth attention are the things that attracts attention

In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon’t be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon’t be surprised if even shadows ignite.

Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.

An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can...

So when we won, it was a pleasant surprise because we didn’t go in thinking we would just run away with it. I think we showed that we can compete against the rest of the...

Be aware of the company you keep. You’d be surprised how easily they rub off on you. You don’t want to attract the wrong influence.

I had a dream about you. You were my main competition for the 2014 Rocking Chair Race Championship Series. It’s the most movement you can make without actually moving anywhere. I won that race—and I...

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don’t know what they want. They just know when they see it.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened… Hence, the only way in which we can bring...

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Oh, you found someone else? With less money?

It’s not helpful for the dollar, but again, it’s not much of a surprise.

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn’t surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.