Quotes About Surprise

One evening in our bedroom, with Dominique asleep and me up watching TV, I was startled by a bird flying manically around the room. After a moment I realized it wasn't a bird at all—it was a bat. I'd duck every time it flew over the bed, trying to figure out what to do. Eventually I crawled along the floor to the wall and opened a window, and it flew right out. The

McPherson. It was from William F. Cody. I pried open the lid, and a very unpleasant

with such skill that he approached the Indian camp within fifty yards before he was noticed. The Indians fired immediately upon Mr. Cody and Sergeant Foley. Mr. Cody killed one Indian; two

In every moment, we're sailing on oceans where wonders are not just the exception; they are the rule.

I have never got over my surprise," Thoreau once reflected, "that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time, too.

One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking.

OF ALL THE various unpleasant ways to be aroused from a sound sleep, one of the worst is the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag.

Of all the various unpleasant ways to be aroused from a sound sleep, one of the worst is the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag. Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

What is beautiful in a film, what I look for, in essence, is a journey toward the unknown. The audience has to sense that I'm heading toward the unknown, that I don't know in advance what will happen.

It's marvelous to discover someone little by little as you move through a film, instead of knowing in advance what that person will be.

Life drifting, in its continuous, unpredictable flow. Life inimitable. Japanese Buddhism teaches us that art (or bliss) is surprise, it cannot be calculated. It is a prey, a catch: "Be as ignorant of what you are going to catch as a fisherman of what is at the end of his fishing rod" (the fish that arises from nowhere).

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

When first we met, we did not guess, That love would prove so hard a master...

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,O, what a panic's in thy breastie!Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle!

John Barleycorn got up again,And sore surprised them all.

this often neutralizes their behavior—they expected, even wanted you to react with force and so they are caught off-guard and confounded by your lack of resistance.

Caesar set the ideal for all leaders and people of power. Like him, you must learn to enlarge your actions through dramatic techniques such as surprise