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Quotes About Unexpected

I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words,' objected Milo. 'Of course, of course, everyone here does,' the king grunted. 'You should have made a tastier speech.
~ Norton Juster
What a strange thing to have happen," he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). "This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I've never seen, going to a place I've never heard of, and all because of a tollbooth which came from nowhere. I'm certainly glad that it's a nice day for a trip," he concluded hopefully, for, at the moment, this was the one thing he definitely knew.
~ Norton Juster
She thrusts hurriedly into your hand an extremely hot buttered roll, flashes out a tiny pair of scissors, snips off the second button of your overcoat, meaningly ejaculates the one word, parallelogram! and swiftly flies down a cross street, looking back fearfully over her shoulder. That
~ O. Henry
I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day suddenly breaks out into yellow blossoms.
~ Olive Schreiner
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they had guns and weren't firing them at him implied that for the moment, at least, they were his dearest friends.
~ Orson Scott Card
Why do I feel a song coming on? said Bean. The sarcastic words slipped out of him unbidden.
~ Orson Scott Card
Peril is everywhere, but there are also allies in places least expected. Sometimes even the people who know you're lying will help you and trust you a little. The
~ Orson Scott Card
One should always be a little improbable.
~ Oscar Wilde
Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition." —Monty Python's Flying Circus
~ Connie Willis
Say you're in the middle of nowhere, nobody for miles and no hope of rescue. You sit down and start playing solitaire and somebody will immediately come along and tell you to play the red eight on the black nine.
~ Connie Willis
You can't go yet, not without telling us what all's happened to you since we saw you last. I faked amnesia, nearly killed Alan Turing, got knocked unconscious by a collapsing wall, faked my own death, and met the Queen. It's a long story, he said.
~ Connie Willis
The perfect metaphor, he said, looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon you, unavoidable even when you try to swerve, unexpected even though there have been warnings all along. [...]
~ Connie Willis
Kneeling on St. Mary's stone floor she had envisioned the candles and the cold, but not Lady Imeyne, waiting for Roche to make a mistake in the mass, not Eliwys or Gawyn or Rosemund. Not Father Roche, with his cutthroat's face and worn-out hose. She could never in a hundred years, in seven hundred and thirty-four years, have imagined Agnes, with her puppy and her naughty tantrums, and her infected knee. I'm glad I came, she thought. In spite of everything.
~ Connie Willis
We could of brought weeners, she said. Yeah. Marshmallers. You wouldnt think a car would burn like that.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Avevo un lavoro dalle 9 alle 5. O meglio, dalle otto alle quattro. Poi le cose capitano come capitano. Non te lo chiedono prima. Non ti chiedono il permesso.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise
~ Cormac McCarthy
Üç hafta önce s?radan bir vatandaÅŸt?m. Dokuz-sekiz aras? çal???yordum. Daha doÄŸrusu sekiz-dört. Bir olay oldu mu oluyor iÅŸte. Sana sormuyor ve iznini istemiyor.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Buddy when he come back from up in the panhandle told me one time it quit blowin up there and all the chickens fell over.
~ Cormac McCarthy
y en la democracia óptica de tales paisajes toda preferencia se vuelve caprichosa y hombre y roca terminan por asumir parentescos insospechados.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All I can say is that he never done nothin like this before.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.
~ Cormac McCarthy