One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.