It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea. – Rory Stewart
My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I’m superstitious enough not to want to talk about them. – Richard Diebenkorn
I don’t think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don’t pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool. – Raghuram Rajan
To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it’s like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder! – Randee Heller
Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake? – Russ Carnahan
I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. – Preet Bharara
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. – Roger Rosenblatt
I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn’t been the manifested reception of it so far. – Ron Glass
I’m awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable. – Pat Morita
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You’re so Southern California. It was a surprise to me. – Parker Stevenson
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. – Robert Frost
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. – Robert Baden-Powell
It was a complete surprise when Warren called me at my office at Yahoo, and my secretary said it was Warren Buffett. I figured it was a friend of mine playing a joke on me. – Susan Decker
Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job – a lovely added extra to attract people’s attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets. – Sophie Thompson
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. – Tim Bishop
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. – William James
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W. Somerset Maugham
I like to surprise myself. I’ve always been attracted to projects where I don’t know how they’re going to turn out. – Terrence McNally
A reversal is just anything that’s a surprise. It’s a way of keeping the audience interested. – Tony Gilroy
You couldn’t escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor. – Satya Bhabha
I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang! – Tom Brokaw
It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again. – Sonny Rollins