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Quotes About Unexpected

Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.
~ Richard Condon
People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.
~ Richard Ford
Life could crash and spin out, pretty much overnight.
~ Richard Powers
look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind." Perhaps unlooked-for kindness along the way
~ Richard Powers
But totally unexpected at the high altitude at which the bombers flew was a 140-mile-per-hour wind. They were blown with it over the target and their ground speed was therefore nearly 450 mph, impossible for the bombardiers.
~ Richard Rhodes
There is no practical or compelling reason to leave one's present comfort zone in life. Why should you or would you? Frankly, none of us do unless and until we have to. The invitation probably has to unexpected and unsought. Richard Rohr
~ Richard Rohr
This was what Miss Beryl had been coming back to, all day, all her life probably, to the mystery of affection, of the heart inclining in one direction and not another, of its unexpected, unwished-for pirouettes, its ability to make a fool, a villain, of its owner, if indeed any human can be said to own his heart. "I know this," she'd told Clive Sr. that long-ago afternoon. "Love is a stupid thing.
~ Richard Russo
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.
~ Rick Riordan
Grover murmured, Well, Percy, what have we learned today? That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks? No, Grover told me. We've learned that your plans really, really bite!
~ Rick Riordan
Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.
~ Rick Riordan
Dude! said a party pony as he unloaded his gear. Did you see that bear guy? He was all like: 'Whoa, I have an arrow in my mouth!
~ Rick Riordan
Now the tattoos, Zia announced. Brilliant! I said. On your tongue, she added. Excuse me?
~ Rick Riordan
Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything.
~ Rick Riordan
We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.
~ Rick Riordan
I uncapped the blade, flung open the door, and found myself face-to-face with a black pegasus. Whoa, boss! Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade. I don't wanna be a horse-ke-bob!
~ Rick Riordan
Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.
~ Rick Riordan
That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.
~ Rick Riordan
Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?
~ Rick Riordan
He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
~ Rick Riordan
Frank nodded grimly. "Well…any goddess who throws a Ding Dong at a giant can't be all bad. Let's go.
~ Rick Riordan
She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!
~ Rick Riordan
The baboon is driving," I noted. "Should I be worried?
~ Rick Riordan
Percy, my mom said. I give you my blessing. Be safe brother! Tyson pleaded. Enchiladas! Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.
~ Rick Riordan
The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car. Up until then I was having a great afternoon.
~ Rick Riordan