Quotes About Surprise

Hence paradoxically, as we accumulate more data and increase our computing power, events become wilder and more unexpected.

que nadie imaginaba ni deseaba.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.

My first novel, Death Will Get You Sober, came out on my sixty-fourth birthday--not quite the career path I expected.

JUST AS THEY'D planned, April stopped by the Rosses' apartment on Thursday afternoon, and the three of them, April and Melanie and Marshall, went on down to pick up Elizabeth. Elizabeth

She gave a single low cry, little more than a loud gasp, as I landed on top of her. In trying desperately to stay light I inevitably made myself heavier. Sod's law. I

The best part about adventures is that you can't plan them.

Katastrofa (...) wyda?a si? niczym nieprzygotowana, jak spadaj?ca na g?ow? z otwartego okna doniczka z pelargoni?.

It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.

Sometimes we don't have great imaginations for beauty. Sometimes we don't have great imaginations for God. We are confined and limited by stereotypes and preconceived expectations. I believe that the word of God, far from confirming everything we already think we know, can surprise us. We are borne on vulture's wings.

You never know when a typical life will be anything but, and you won't know if you are rewriting history, or rewriting the future, until the writing is complete.

At my age, a surprise can be hazardous to your health.

Sometimtes you don't even know what you really want until you get what you thought you wanted.

Life has a way of changing the path you are on when you least expect it.

He came outta nowhere, and he was like Jackie Chan or something. I mean, I never saw anybody fight like that.

At the sight of Day, her whole face lit up. "Mikhail! You came! Barbara said you would, but that we might have to wait for hell to freeze over first. Did it?

I swore I wasn't going to rescue any more damsels in distress," Day muttered. To his surprise, Barbara gave him a lopsided grin, banging on the side of the trailer to make it produce a door. "What makes you think she isn't rescuing you?" she asked, and stomped inside without a backward look.

Why do you two have swords?" "Yes," Day asked. "Why do we?" He headed toward the door without waiting for the answer. "There is a gigantic beast rising from the lake and coming toward the hut," Gregori said, as if he'd just told them the neighbors were coming for breakfast. "We should probably stop it before it gets here.

My brother, are you aware that you are presently taking the form of a rather large and distinctly emerald-hued bear? Not that it isn't an improvement on your usual excessive good lucks, but...

I've got the perfect dress. It's going to knock your socks off." Marcus wasn't sure if that was good or bad, but he couldn't wait to find out.

After a moment, Callery shrugged. "We'll go in, then, the two of us, with Weeping Myrtle here." He nodded towards the café. "It's Moaning Myrtle," Kincaid corrected, feeling a flicker of surprise at Callery's Harry Potter reference. He didn't seem the fantasy type. And somehow he couldn't imagine that this man had kids.

Gemma searched for a moment, then gave a laugh

Two gasps rang out. The first one came from Clara, the second from Fezzo. One moment they'd been looking at a mound of concrete, and now they were staring at two human feet. They were crossed at the ankle so that tops of the feet faced each other and rested toe to toe.