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Quotes About Surprise

A big surprise for W.D. was discovering that Clyde and Bonnie both prayed frequently. The religious faith ingrained in them by their mothers hadn't been entirely abandoned.
~ Jeff Guinn
The best ideas in science are always simple, elegant, and unexpected
~ Jeff Hawkins
Dear Aunt Loretta, Thank you so much for the awesome pants! How did you know I wanted that for Christmas? I love the way the pants look on my legs! All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pants. Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever! Sincerely, Greg
~ Jeff Kinney
I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals.
~ Jeff Kinney
must've stepped in dog poop when I walked in the grass. And I knew EXACTLY where it happened, too. SQUISH I took my shoe off and went to the front of the room to tell Mrs. Pope about my situation. But I think Mrs. Pope thought I was trying to skip out on the pop quiz, because she gave me
~ Jeff Kinney
it turns the shower scene was a lot harder to film than i expected
~ Jeff Kinney
hopefully Mr. Blakely won't be too mad when he sees his
~ Jeff Kinney
Zoo wee mama
~ Jeff Kinney
If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all¨
~ Jeff Kinney
Admittedly, there was an element of counting chickens before they hatched involved in my "next couple of minutes" prediction, since there were still plenty of places that bodies could be hidden. Or, for that matter, sitting out in the open with "Surprise!" written on the floor in their blood. But like I've always said, it's easier to count eggs that are just lying there in the nest than baby chickens that are running all over the place.
~ Jeff Strand
They both had sub-machine guns. Yes, actual sub-machine guns. I couldn't believe it.
~ Jeff Strand
I expected to see a complete horror show. But I didn't know whether it would be a "pile of severed heads in the corner" horror show, or an "intestines hanging from the ceiling like party banners" horror show, or a good old-fashioned "floors soaked with blood" horror show. It
~ Jeff Strand
The chef grabs the guy's wife/girlfriend by the hair, bashes her down on the table, and slams the meat cleaver into the back of her neck. I don't think she even ordered a turkey sandwich!
~ Jeff Strand
He waited for the spider to succumb to nature's plan and go underneath the surface again. It didn't. It kept swimming toward them. Another spider leapt into the pool. And then another. "Nope," said Jaunty. "Nope, nope, nope! I'm not okay with this!
~ Jeff Strand
Don't lick me, you asshole!" he said, trying to pull his arm free. Crabs licked George's forehead
~ Jeff Strand
Malcolm gaped at me as if a giant erect penis had suddenly sprouted from my forehead. "I know, it's a lot to take in," I said.
~ Jeff Strand
I couldn't believe that I was going to die from being slowly eaten alive by chained-up elderly ladies who thought they were vampires. I'd always kind of figured that I would go peacefully in my sleep, after my wife dropped an anvil on my head.
~ Jeff Strand
My blood ran ice-cold as I entered Human Resources.
~ Jeff Strand
I aimed my flashlight at the ground—and leapt back, gasping. Incredibly, a human face seemed to be rising out of the earth.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you'd be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.
~ Elizabeth Berg
When Lucille was a girl, a carnival came to town one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you'd be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Life is funny, isn't it? Funny in the way you can never predict not only what will happen, but who you'll become.
~ Elizabeth Berg
every person was like a box of magic:
~ Elizabeth Berg