Positive Surprise Quotes

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

I have my own boat, but when I first thought about taking a cruise, I thought, 'You're going to trap me on a boat, and I'm going to walk in circles and go crazy,' but it's awesome.

It's nice to squash people's expectations.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

I was really excited to land my first 1080. But I was surprised that it came a lot easier than I thought it would.

The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.

I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

Hopefully, the people that would look at a Good Charlotte record and dismiss it for maybe what they think is a certain kind of content, if they do discover something meaningful, then it's a nice surprise. I like those kinds of contradictions.

Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away.

I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

I had fun playing a mutant. I never thought I would. Like, I never in my wildest dreams thought I would.

You never know what's going to happen. It's kind of nice to limit your expectations so when something clicks, you go, 'Hey, that's nice. Thank you.'

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I think it is OK to surprise people.

I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every time the music is slow I feel that people are going to get up and go out. You get this nervousness. But, to my surprise, people starting singing the song even before it came in. They started singing along a week later, after release, which was very cool.

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.