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Quotes About Unexpected

I love the surprise element of being a mom.
~ Jessica Capshaw
I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
~ John Lithgow
Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.
~ Josie Long
I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.
~ Kimbra
Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.
~ Leona Lewis
Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.
~ Louise Rennison
Love is the one surprise.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised
~ Michele Bardsley
I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.
~ Bill Bryson
FOR WARREN G. HARDING, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead for nearly four years by then.
~ Bill Bryson
Once in a great while, a few times in history, a human mind produces an observation so acute and unexpected that people can't quite decide which is the more amazing – the fact or the thinking of it.
~ Bill Bryson
Nearly everyone I talked to had some gruesome story involving a guileless acquaintance who had gone off hiking the trail with high hopes and new boots and come stumbling back two days later with a bobcat attached to his head or dripping blood from an armless sleeve and whispering in a hoarse voice, "Bear!" before sinking into a troubled unconsciousness.
~ Bill Bryson
Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and, more unexpectedly, the first novel to feature a werewolf.
~ Bill Bryson
Australia is just so full of surprises.
~ Bill Bryson
At Delmonico's, the celebrated New York restaurant, customers could order pumpernickel rye ice cream and asparagus ice cream, among many other unexpected flavors. Manhattan
~ Bill Bryson
The image was like finding an automobile factory in your closet.
~ Bill Buford
Irony--it's funny until it happens to you.
~ Bill Morris
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
~ Bill Watterson
You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.
~ Bill Watterson
Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.
~ Bill Watterson
Hsiao Lao smiled weakly. He is a foolish God... Your God does not behave in the way I would expect. I laughed suddenly, for I had thought the same many times -- how foolish God is with me, my sweet, spendthrift, profligate Lord, bestowing on me things I would not have thought myself capable of. It may seem that way, Hsaso Lao. He is foolish in His giving and in His care for us. He has spoiled me throughout my life.
~ Bo Caldwell
There was a lot of halting and waiting, little acknowledgment, little affirmation, but sometimes all it takes is a wink or a nod from some unexpected place to vary the tedium of a baffling existence.
~ Bob Dylan
Une chèvre, sur le bord de la route, fit un signe avec ses cornes et Angel s'arrêta. Monte, dit-il à l'animal. La chèvre sauta dans la voiture et s'assit sur le plateau, derrière eux. Elles font toutes de l'auto-stop, expliqua Angel. [...]
~ Boris Vian
I'm not saying I needed my life to be a symphony - I just never thought it'd turn out to be a country song.
~ Brad Meltzer