Quotes about Surprise

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

The really nice thing with 'Future Past' is that you actually have a superhero film - much to everyone's surprise, I will hope - that is about something. It's about racism, I hope. It's about resisting oppression. It's about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom.

Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.