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“Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller w...”
“I rose swiftly and struck him across the cheek, hard enough to make my palm sting. He gaped at me. 'I do not want your damned money. I want you to answer me.' Carefully, he fingered his jaw. There ...”
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”
“The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.”
“And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.”
“It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.”
“Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.”
“Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.”
“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.”
“And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.”
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”
“I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.”
“The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then yo...”
“I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.”
“Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting...”
“It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.”
“I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.”
“The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.”
