Quotes About Startle

The woman shucked Matt out of his shorts before he knew what was happening and dumped him inside.

I swung my feet off the bed and got on my shoes, and then Liu opened the door and we all jumped back, because Orion was standing right outside like a creeper. He jumped himself, so it wasn't that he'd actually been planning to ambush me; I could only guess that he'd been standing there working himself up to knocking.

And then, in the middle of one of my blinks, she lunged. Her languid body turned into a missile.

Don't sneak up on a woman holding a hammer.

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...

A peremptory knock on the front door made me jump.

Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben's reflexes had saved him. "Please stop doing that!" Ben barked. "Please keep doing that!" Hi warbled.

The angel lay in the little thicket. It had no need of love. There was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it. We can lie here with the angel if we like. It couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat.

JACK HEARD A HEAVY SPLASH and he turned around in his seat again.

Comedy depends on the unexpected.

And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.

A knockout, Curran said behind me. I jumped in the air about a foot and managed to land with some semblance of dignity. He had managed to sneak up on me again. Time to save face. Nah. That wasn't a knockout. I just staggered him a bit. I wasn't talking about the kick, baby.

Jehoshaphat!

To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies, Til the dappled dawn doth rise.

Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.

Peeta?" I creep along the bank. "Well, don't step on me.

I almost fall out of the tree.

I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get all the comfort I need from a good cigar.

The doorbell rang like a rape, or the tearing of ripe flesh.

it's like being attacked by a RAT!

and the bellowing, disembodied "Ho, ho, ho" of the store Santa, still unseen from their vantage point, which never failed to startle the Fangs. Caleb found himself uttering sounds in groups of three, "Har, har, har," and "Hee, hee, hee," and "Hey, hey, hey," and "How, how, how," until Camille shushed him.

I'm truly sorry Man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An' fellow-mortal! Robert Burns To a Mouse

Wow, colorful. I think the kid's head plowed into me. He came at me like a mortar. Pow! Skull meets tits. Tits lose.

Eyes on hers, he flicked her shoulder. Her mouth fell open. She started stomping the floor. What in God's name are you doing? he demanded. Trying to kill the giant tarantula, because the only reason I can figure you just fucking flicked me is because there was a big, fat spider on my shoulder.