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Quotes About Unexpected

She had not planned to weep—it was the last thing from her mind, a display of mawkish weakness—but she could not help it.
~ William Styron
He looks like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath.
~ Winston Churchill
He suddenly found that the thing he had set out to prove had proved something quite different. Human nature had outmaneuvered him. For if she would not desert a friend, neither could he. •
~ Winston Graham
It was the unexpected tribute that broke Ross up. He had hardened himself to all the rest. Not being a religious man, he had no resources to meet the loss of the child except his own resentful will. Inwardly he railed against heaven and circumstance, but the very cruelty of the blow touched his character at its toughest and most obstinate.
~ Winston Graham
stopped, gasping at the air. The nail turned
~ Winston Graham
no one expected you to have. I trust he appreciates the
~ Winston Graham
life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get
~ Winston Groom
A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It's like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one—it's too much!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Pierwsza moja Wizyta u Witkacego: dzwoni?, otwieraj? si? drzwi, w ciemnym przedpokoju potworny karze? ro?nie - to Witkacy otworzy? drzwi w kucki i z wolna si? podnosi?...
~ Witold Gombrowicz
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~ Witold Gombrowicz
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose..
~ Woody Allen
There's a snake in my butt!
~ Woody Allen
Suddenly, one day, out of nowhere, an enormous abyss opened up beneath our feet and I was staring into a face I didn't recognize.
~ Woody Allen
But as I would later learn, Soon-Yi was not just a diamond in the rough but round cut and flawless
~ Woody Allen
but you haven't lived till you tried sitting in an emergency room holding a rodent at 2 a.m. next to a man with a sneezing parrot.
~ Woody Allen
the suggestion caught me mid egg rolls
~ Woody Allen
Hola. No te había visto. ¿Vives aquí? —me esmero tanto en parecer casual que de pronto no sé si parezco pendejo.
~ Xavier Velasco
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity   In
~ Xenophon
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
~ Yann Martel
A significant part of the problem was the weird nature of the Moon's mass that was not at all what was expected. Instead of a generally constant gravitational field such as the Earth exhibits across its surface, the Moon is an inconsistent, lumpy ball that has huge variations in gravity from region to region.
~ Christopher Knight
Chase became a critically acclaimed portrait painter and the most highly paid Asian artist of his generation. Jenny Shimizu became a model and one of the planet's best-known lesbians ("a homo-household name," as The Pink Paper declared) for her affairs with Madonna and Angelina Jolie (a career trajectory that, despite the tattoo on Jenny's right biceps of a hot babe straddling a Snap-on tool, Ted never saw coming).
~ Christopher McDougall
There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.
~ Christopher Morley
Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.
~ Christopher Morley
There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. - Roger Mifflin
~ Christopher Morley