#surprise

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

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#booing #each #ended #festival #film

I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#anything #hardly #i #surprised

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#find #idiots #lot #out #people

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#answers #any #believe #big #get

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#blessed #character #could #day #god

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. ↗

— Charles M. Schwab

#everyone #friendly #happy #happy life #kindly

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