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Quotes About Unexpected

It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Working in comedies is not something I set out to do. But, I love it. I've taken some improv classes here and there, but I don't consider myself a comedian by any means.
~ Erick Chavarria
As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.
~ Franka Potente
It would have been magical I was sure, if I hadn't caught my marshmallow on fire and dropped it on his shoe.
~ Holly Hood, Ink
One doesn't fall in love... one digs a hole for himself to trip in... claiming he didn't see it coming
~ A.M.M Alusi
Hard to call it a party without sardines.
~ Brandon Mull
You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn't go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.
~ Brandon Mull
Rachel opened her mouth to respond, but the head cut her off.
~ Brandon Mull
Sometimes good things come in small, dented packages.
~ Brandon Mull
I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the corner of Sixteenth Street and made a closer inspection it turned out to be something called a "Gay Pride Parade," which made my stomach turn.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Did you know I was born in a Holiday Inn.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
People often surprise me, but not usually in a good way.
~ Brian Herbert
As it turned out, he was wrong about that. The last guest didn't show up until we were eating our dessert. That was when the ghost sat down in the empty chair-directly across from me.
~ Bruce Coville
We've gone on holiday by mistake
~ Bruce Robinson
he had a tail. A bear's tail, short and waggily and not at all in keeping with the general size and ferocity of him. Except it was, because bears, after all, were large and ferocious. But they were also round through the waist and hip, whereas the Beast narrowed more like a lion. I might have expected a longer, lashing tail, but not the stubbly little thing that stuck out from the back of his trousers. I
~ C.E. Murphy
For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived
~ Cameron Dokey
Just when we think we have our own stories figured out, heroes arise in the most unexpected places.
~ Camron Wright
Whatever happens, I'm glad we ate that bleeping lizard.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Mickey Cray was surprised to learn that Derek Badger didn't want any of his captive critters on location. Mickey had never wrangled for a nature show that used only wild animals, nor had he ever encountered a person less qualified than Derek to handle untamed specimens.
~ Carl Hiaasen
At heart Chaz Perrone was irrefutably a cheat and a maggot, but he had always shunned violence as dutifully as a Quaker elder. Nobody who knew him, including his few friends, would have imagined him capable of homicide. Chaz himself was somewhat amazed that he'd actually gone through with it.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Ellis dutifully opens the top half of the bisected lid... and there's Jimmy Stoma. All things considered, he looks pretty darn spiffy. Better, in fact, than he did on some of his album covers. He's so lean and fit, you wouldn't guess he once outweighed Meat Loaf.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Satan follows me through the door, flops down on the rug, and farts.
~ Carl Hiaasen
The final puzzled look on the man's face suggested that he was not expecting to be gored by a giant stuffed fish head.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death. (Hard Candy)
~ Tennessee Williams