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Surprise Quotes
Most Famous Surprise Quotes of All Time!
The best art often lives in that space between what audiences expect and a well-placed surprise, a balance many creators say defines great work. Some describe preferring an honest, revealing atmosphere over tricking people with a concealed motive, themes explored further in our Always quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
- Nov 07, 2020
The secret to humor is surprise.
- Compatible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since JPMorgan Chase announced its surprise $2 billion-and-growing trading loss, there have been renewed calls from economists, pundits, and politicians to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that prevented commercial banks from participating in investment banking activities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
- Eulogy
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise!
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter loves to be surprised. And she loves to surprise me. She loves to create games where either one or both of us are surprised, or go away, and then come back. And she loves to play them over and over, and over again. The combo is familiar. Go away. Come back. Surprise! She is only two. I better get used to this.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm teetotal and a vegetarian, which is sometimes a surprise to people who meet me expecting me to resemble one of the characters in my books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Even a friendship built over decades can still hold room for genuine surprise when someone's success feels inevitable in hindsight. Spring itself gets described as quietly rehearsing its yearly surprise, a gentle reminder found throughout our Being, Life, and Me quotes.