Surprise Quotes
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If you go down in the woods today You're sure of a big Surprise If you down in the woods today You'd better go in disguise. For every Bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because, Today's the day theTeddy Bears have their Picnic.
— 1932 'The Teddy Bears' Picnic' (with James B Kennedy).
Texture and pattern should function as a Surprise.
robert denning— Patricia Volk, "The Sweet Smell of Excess", The New York Times (October 8, 2006; retrieved October 4, 2007).
This is not the way it has been done. We would never Surprise each other ... It's not to say that there's not important information that we could discuss or would be discussed in secret or closed session, but I'm astounded by this. I don't really know what the tenor of this is, what is the justification for it and why this extreme approach was used.
trent lott— The Associated Press, November 1, 2005.
The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the kids" and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no Surprise; competition makes us better.
john stossel— Stossel, John (2006-07-26). "Smearing Education Choice". Townhall.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a Surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.
roger ebert— Review of Pearl Harbor (25 May 2001)
Surprise me.
— Who: Bob Hope
— Note: Spoken to his wife when asked where he wanted to be buried.
Surprise was paramount because we believed that the Japanese did not know of the presence of our carriers.
— Commander Joseph Worthington, Commanding Officer of the destroyer USS Benham, on the US Navy’s planning for the Battle of Midway, which relied on the breaking of the Japanese code.[ ]
[F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not Surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.
stephen baxter— James Nicoll Usenet article (1998)
I heard of your marriage, Cathy, not long since; and, while waiting in the yard below, I meditated this plan — just to have one glimpse of your face — a stare of Surprise, perhaps, and pretended pleasure; afterward settle my score with Hindley; and then prevent the law by doing execution on myself. Your welcome has put these ideas out of my mind.
emily brontë— Heathcliff (Ch. X).
Two keen eyes had watched every move of the party from the foliage of a nearby tree. Tarzan had seen the Surprise caused by his notice, and while he could understand nothing of the spoken language of these strange people their gestures and facial expressions told him much.
Edgar Rice Burroughs— Ch. 13 : His Own Kind
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can Surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
václav havel— Ch. 3 : Facing the Establishment
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about Surprise.
oscar niemeyer— Quoted in "Architect of Optimism," Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times (2007-04-13)
It may come as a Surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
michael parenti— Preface to the Sixth Edition, p. viii
I know no human being can do miracles but Gilles could really Surprise us sometimes.
gilles villeneuve— Jacques Laffite Formula One driver, 1982
So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's Surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded.'
evelyn waugh— Ch. 3 : Spring
One mark of good verse is Surprise.
john betjeman— Radio Talk. BBC Radio 4 (2 August 1978)
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life much less intelligence beyond this Earth does not Surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.
arthur c. clarke— "Credo" (1991); also in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Essays, 1934-1998 (1999), p. 360
When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise , it caused neither joy nor sorrow , but an extreme Surprise. The Lord himself was embarrassed. He gathered an assembly of clerics and doctors, and asked them whether they regarded the baptism as valid.
anatole france— Book I : The Beginnings, Ch. VI : An Assembly In Paradise
Born on a different cloud from the ones that have burst round town It's no Surprise to me that yer classless, clever and free.
liam gallagher— Song Born on a Different Cloud
“I heard it clearly, and so did everyone else, I’ll be bound. Your name, dear, not mine. I am very popular. You, it seems, are not.” “What a Surprise.” He dropped petals on the floor. “And what a good thing I don’t care.” “How nice for you that you don’t have to.” “Meaning,” he drawled, “that you do.” “Just so.”
ellen kushner— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 392)
Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad Surprise To higher levels rise.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Santa Filomena.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual Surprise!
wallace stevens— Journal entry (4 March 1906); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 8
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any Surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
charles stross— Chapter 8 (“Elector”), p. 363
Despite today’s upside Surprise, we maintain our view that Indonesia’s growth will slow further in the coming quarters, as the impact of Bank Indonesia’s policy tightening weighs on credit growth and, in turn, GDP growth.
— Prakriti Sofat, an economist at Barclays in Singapore, quoted in Bloomberg, "Indonesia’s Growth Beats Estimates as Rebound Seen Faltering", February 5, 2014
I have said frequently, and I repeat it, that there is no Judge on the bench who is more willing to allow amendments, even at the last moment, than I, provided there is no Surprise.
— Kekewich, J., James v. Smith (1890), L. R. 1 C. D. [1891], p. 389.
Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist, Can your lurking thought Surprise, And interpret your device, * * * * * All things wait for and divine him, How shall I dare to malign him?
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Initial Dæmonic and Celestial Love, Part I.
I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad Surprise.
richard watson gilder— Richard Watson Gilder, Ode. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
While you may have your initial success, due to timing and Surprise, the time will come when you too will have your losses, but there will be this great difference. You will not only be unable to make up your losses, but will grow weaker as time grows on, while on the other hand we will not only make up our losses but will grow stronger as time goes on. It is inevitable that we will crush you before we are through with you.
— Admiral Harold Stark, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, speaking to the Japanese ambassador before the war.
