Quotes About Surprise

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.

It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes.

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

I'm a Snorlax! This morning we found a field with pineapples. I was so happy that after I finished them off I evolved from a Munchlax! Mom: Munchie, wake up! Time to eat! Me: Awwww, mom… WAIT! EAT??? YES!!! Munch. Munch. Munchlax. Munch. Nom. Nom. Nom. What's this? Pineapples?! YAY! Munch. Munch. Huh? What is happening, mom?!

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

You never know when God's going to replace what you thought was gone forever. What a gift - a precious gift from God.

think you'd put the horses in the house, though," he guffawed.

Before Thomas could say a word, before Molly could protest, Bailey leaned over the table and kissed her firmly on the lips—on the lips, in the dining room, under the crystal chandelier that swayed when she opened her eyes. "Bailey, I told you that until we're wed you're to pretend there's no agreement." "Must've forgot." He picked up his hat and strutted out the door before her shocked father could stop him.

Bernard, it would have been a kindness to warn me that PC Plod was going to pay a visit.

Blessed are the people who are living dreams they didn't know they had. Dreams they never dreamed. Dreams that came to life because they followed their intuition

None of us is leading quite the life we were at all prepared for.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

That was a screaming meemie

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

She had been a pleasant surprise. From what her father had said I had expected an intellectual treat in a plain wrapper, but the package was attractive enough to take your attention off of the contents....she was not in any way hard to look at, and those details which had been first disclosed when she appeared in her swimming rig were completely satisfactory.

As I trotted down the hall, Fritz was holding the street door open and three people were entering in the shape of a sandwich – a dick, Zorka, and another dick.

He broke off and glanced at me because a knock sounded at the door. I lifted from my chair and started across, but it opened before I got there and two men entered.