Quotes About Unexpected

Is this the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall?" he asked, wondering whether he had arrived by mistake at a brothel that was throwing some sort of a party. "Oh

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they?

A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it's a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death.

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming.

I'm pretty nifty at thinking on my feet, even when I'm actually sitting down with a renter in my embrace, but this fellow's sudden appearance had me more than a little stumped

Fischhoff calls this phenomenon creeping determinism -- the sense that grows on us, in retrospect, that what has happened was actually inevitable -- and the chief effect of creeping determinism, he points out, is that it turns unexpected events into expected events. As he writes, The occurrence of an event increases its reconstructed probability and makes it less surprising than it would have been had the original probability been remembered.

I want to take my readers on a ride, but, in the end, I want to throw them from the carriage.

Imagine your Aunt Minnie bringing you a plate of cookies as you sat in front of the TV, a string of human molars strung casually, like pearls, around her neck.

Suddenly and without warning, one of the men stepped around and, with the beast's nether regions regrettably all too apparent, plunged his bare hand up to the elbow in the pig's rectum, then removed it, holding a fistful of steaming pig shit - which he flung, unceremoniously, to the ground with a loud splat before repeating the process.

Which is how I found myself in a bathroom full of machine-guns.

Out of this world. Best tortilla ever. There's not even any pork in it.

like candy thunder. Oh

Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;

Everyone knows the manner in which some specific name will recur several times in quick succession from different quarters; part of that inexplicable magic throughout life that makes us suddenly think of someone before turning a street corner and meeting him, or her, face to face. In the same way, you may be struck, reading a book, by some obscure passage or lines of verse, quoted again, quite unexpectedly, twenty-four hours later.

This revelation of Duport's musical leanings showed how, as ever, people can always produce something unexpected about themselves.

Mamma, Major Grantly has--skedaddled.

The question caught me off guard.

The secret to humor is surprise.

When Connie rounded the corner several seconds later, she found her friend standing glumly by herself, squeezing a roll of Charmin.

Just when you least expect it, --- enkantos will always have a way of surprising you.

There was awe, and there was also incredulity—sheer disbelief that the dead Moon, of all worlds, could have sprung this fantastic surprise.

The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.