#surprise

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#basis #cast #disappointing #episode #going

I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#close #first #game #i #i think

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry! ↗

— Pat Sajak

#being #bill #bill clinton #clinton #cost

Life is full of challenges and surprises. ↗

— Jil Sander

#full #life #surprises

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#after #biochemistry #class #course #degree

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#blow #blows #bomb #bus #hitchcock

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#century #exhaustion #experienced #first #forgetting

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#being #believe #bin #close #destruction

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#going #judgments #lot #makes #posterity

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization. ↗

— Robert Shea

#i #instead #may #necessity #organization