Quotes About Surprise

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it.

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

When Dradin stopped running he found himself on the fringe of the religious quarter, next to an emaciated macadamia salesman who cracked jokes like nuts.

Their settlement was famous for its dissolving architecture; at any moment a balcony might disappear and drop people to their deaths. This did not happen so often that it was monotonous, but often enough to make living there exciting.

He had not expected any of it to be beautiful, but it was beautiful.

Someone was breathing. Behind him. Someone was breathing on his neck. The knowledge froze him, froze the cry of "Jesus fuck!" in his throat. He turned with an incredible slowness..

If they were expected," she shot back, "then they wouldn't be breakthroughs, now would they?

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.

Some guy stopped by to see you. -Who was it? -I don't know. -You don't know? Was he cute? Did you fall in love with him?

Have I come at a bad time?" she managed to say without guffawing. I believe I said something on the order of "argh," and compounded my embarrassment by trying to cover myself with the sweatpants I'd picked up off the floor.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

As we followed him down a hall to a back bedroom, he told us that he owned the house. "Unfortunately, it's not haunted," he said.

I have never heard anyone tell me that this would happen to them.