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Quotes About Surprise

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!
~ Richard Fleeshman
I think, these days when someone talks about their struggles of mental health, we are almost surprised by it. It comes as a revelation and we all really acknowledge it.
~ Emma Corrin
Everybody always talks about it, about how you don't know love until you meet your baby, and you really feel that. There are no words. It was a really wonderful surprise. And there is no way to prepare yourself for the sleep deprivation and what comes with it.
~ Hilary Duff
On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted.
~ Julia Stiles
Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
~ Calvin Harris
A lot of people say I am not tall and I am small guy. But I jump very high. I surprise a lot of people when I go for the corner kicks.
~ Patrice Evra
I was about 6-foot-3 my freshman year of high school, and after the summer, I was about 6-foot-8. It all happened so fast. I went into the summer being tall, and when I came back, I was a giant. My knees, man, they were throbbing all the time. I couldn't sit in the car for long stretches; my knees felt like they were going to explode.
~ DeAndre Jordan
I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.
~ John Isner
Even in pictures, people think that I'm over five feet, and when they meet me in person, they're like, 'Oh, you're so short. I didn't expect that because you look so tall in pictures!'
~ Skai Jackson
My speed as a tall guy is deceptive. You look at me and I might not look fast, but when I go out and play, people are left scratching their heads like 'Where did that come from?'
~ Shaun Livingston
I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.
~ Christie Brinkley
One fan reaction I keep getting is 'we thought you were taller.'
~ Shakti Mohan
Being shot at is so unlike what one expects it to be that one can hardly connect the two ideas enough to have the appropriate emotions, the first few times.
~ Richard Hughes
Oh Christ. Put me back with the zombies, Strawberry Shortcake." [p. 411]
~ Richard Kadrey
She looks like she just saw a ghost, a unicorn, and Hello Kitty having a three-way in a clown car and they didn't invite her. I
~ Richard Kadrey
I got my ass kicked by some third-rate spooks and now my nice kitchen looks like a drunk brontosaurus tried to fuck the dishwasher.
~ Richard Kadrey
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. —WILLIAM CLAYTON
~ Richard Kadrey
Shit," Jonny mumbled as he stepped on something soft and clinging in the doorway of the abandoned hotel. Then "Shit" again as he recognized the accuracy of his curse.
~ Richard Kadrey
Why don't you tell me about why you're here?" says Ray. Before I can answer, Carlos says. "Despite appearances, Stark here is dead." Ray cocks his head and looks at me. "I wouldn't have guessed," says Ray. "You wear death well.
~ Richard Kadrey
She looks like she just saw a ghost, a unicorn, and Hello Kitty having a three-way in a clown car and they didn't invite her.
~ Richard Kadrey
No. You open it." "You think I put a bomb in there? Maybe snakes? Maybe a snake bomb?
~ Richard Kadrey
When she shocks me this time, it's on the inside of my thigh, close enough to my balls to make them consider finding work elsewhere.
~ Richard Kadrey
Quiet as a baby bunny, I come up behind him and slam his head into the wall.
~ Richard Kadrey
he grabs his pistol when I thought this was a knife fight, and, well, it's a very upsetting moment. I
~ Richard Kadrey