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Quotes About Unexpected

The source of our laughter is the small stone that tumbled into a corner of Pandora's box.
~ Osamu Dazai
Before you ask the person to vote, do something nice and unexpected that will make that person feel the need to reciprocate the favor.
~ Unknown
Often wisdom comes from the unlikeliest places.
~ Unknown
The top challengers are usually understood, but there are always a few dark horses in the running for every major tournament.
~ Unknown
Wow, dude, come in,' said Tommy [Lee], when I rang the door-bell. 'I can't believe it. Ozzy Osbourne's in my house.'
~ Ozzy Osbourne
If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.
~ Unknown
If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?
~ P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
Belascoarán se llevó la mano a la bolsa y sacó una paleta de caramelo rellena de chicle. Lo mismo podía haber sacado su pistola, el tipo no le inspiraba la más mínima simpatía.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
If not for the second-worst mistake of Grace Healey's life, she never would have found the suitcase.
~ Pam Jenoff
Pat's take on « Organic Writing » : « I don't make an outline before writing a book, the subconscious formulates the story. You can't stop it – it just happens. I never know what I'll end up with. I begin researching the subject and writing at the same time. My subconscious is telling me a story, so I'm being entertained. I don't know what's going to happen." Quote from 1997
~ Unknown
Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
~ Patricia Briggs
That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me." I nodded toward the mess. "And if you knew my life, you'd realize just how freaky that is.
~ Patricia Briggs
Suddenly I don't feel so bad at being rescued by a rabbit
~ Patricia Briggs
Why the rolling pin and not a knife?" he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she'd seen his face on the stairs. "A knife wouldn't even slow him down, but bones take time to heal." He liked that. Who'd have thought he'd get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? "All right," he said. "All right.
~ Patricia Briggs
Maybe I shouldn't have said anything about the finger, but it kept coming up in my thoughts. I've never had a finger thrown at me before. A new-and-improved addition to my creepy-hall-of-fame nightmares.
~ Patricia Briggs
He did not except the fire to destroy everything they hadn't found.
~ Patricia Briggs
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—'I didn't mean to startle her.
~ Patricia Briggs
You came during an early snowstorm
~ Patricia MacLachlan
There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.
~ Patrick Carman
La difficulté n'est pas d'espérer mais de demeurer capable de fasciner l'inespéré.
~ Unknown
In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application elsewhere. Concepts developed purely for philosophy of mathematics turned out to be just what you needed to build a computer. Statistical formulae for understanding genetic change in biology are now applied in both economics and in programming.
~ Unknown
Rành là m?i s? ??u k?t thúc trong nh?ng h?p ??ng sô cô la ho?c bích quy. Ho?c xì gà.
~ Patrick Modiano
Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
~ Patrick Ness
This is it. This is goodbye. A goodbye I wasn't even looking for.
~ Patrick Ness