I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations. – Paula Radcliffe
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It’s funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, ‘Okay, let’s experience that.’ You just have to just go with it because it’s rare. – Julianna Margulies
Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow’s psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn’t arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn’t a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival. – Jay Samit
However long, it’s definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness – that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness – always a surprise no matter how often it’s happened – that their lives are very different from your own. – Lynn Coady
I’ll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise. – John Schlesinger
The success of the second ‘Austin Powers’ caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better. – Jay Roach
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. – Leslie Charteris
When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress. – Keith Ellison
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn’t wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. – Lionel Blue
I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge. – Kara Swisher
To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing. – John Garfield
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. – Marc Jacobs
When I wrote my first serious novel, ‘Interior’, I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike’s, ‘The Coup’, which is set in Africa and will come as a delightful surprise to anyone who has only read his Americana. – Justin Cartwright
Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way. – John Barry
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do. – Kate Klise
I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it’s by surprise. – Ludacris
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don’t seem to suit the person at all. – Krzysztof Kieslowski
All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o’clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility. – Laura Linney
I’ll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what’s going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in. – James Burrows
So it won’t be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon. – Lucas Papademos
