Quotes About Unexpected

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

4. You've had enough of the big city and decide to return home. Waiting for a bus, you pick up a discarded copy of Larva and, because you have a long bus-ride ahead of you, begin reading. You quickly discover it is not a conventional novel. Do you: (a) discard it and stare out the window all the way back home? (b)

I'm living on a one-way, dead-end street. I don't know how I got there.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don't know how I got there.

The episode with the American woman had shaken him as much as he sensed it had shaken her. It had been unexpected, a total, disorienting yanking-back to act out an archetypical role. He'd had as little volution in it as she, as if they'd been the puppets of higher purposes.

Why do you have to develop a sense of loyalty now? It is tiresome and unexpected.

I was married off without realizing what that entailed, but found myself in a a fairy tale. This land is beautiful, as if I dreamed it up in my head.

The last person Owen wanted to see when he went into the cottage was Peveral Othman, yet there he was, as large as life, a little bedraggled, sitting at the kitchen table as if he'd lived there for years.

And where did you spring from, Oskan? I'd already had enough shocks without you leaping out of the shadows like a skinny ghost!

What's the matter, don't you like surprises?" "I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes.

Jess went into the loo at the far end, locked herself in, sat down, and dropped her head into her hands. She imagined the sight that must have greeted Mr. Powell when he made his unexpected return to his office. A huge brown stain on his carpet, plus several small red ones (from the pasta). Two socks, one containing pasta and one soaked with brown liquid, lying on the floor. Two shoes, probably smelly, just kicked off anywhere.

Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times.

Things had changed in a way that no one could have ever expected - and I ached with regret.

Why didn't you say something sooner! I said He wasn't the only one disgusted. This is my first time on a horse. Really? Blaec said dryly, I couldn't tell. Oh just pretend its my son you're riding.

Why didn't anyone ever drop by unexpectedly when she was dressed to kill?

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments of life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

Great leaders attest to the wisdom and power that may lie within the most unlikely of us.

About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?

All theatrical forms of movement - the 'silly walks' and pratfalls, but also the arm-swinging ('I am carefree!') and the deliberate direction-changing ('I am rouge!') - leach out of the room. Unexpected collectivity has slowly emerged in its place. Perhaps most important, embarrassment has been given up. Without their having noticed it, they're no longer embarrassed. Their speed has equalized until they're all traveling at the same rate.

I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.

Once, an unkempt, elderly woman came into the pawn shop. She appeared homeless, and she insisted on seeing every piece of expensive jewelry in the store. Just when I was feeling impatient, the woman pointed at the most expensive piece of jewelry and said, 'I'll take that one.' Then she proceeded to pull $4,000 out of her sock to pay for it.