Quotes About Surprise

Laurence Sterne

First thought: It was a dream Second thought: No it wasn't Third thought: Crap

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. You're lost! You're angry! You're in the wrong school! You're in the wrong country! You're on the wrong planet!

If the president was back, then the fever was truly over. If the president was back, we were safe. I threw my arms around Nathaniel and planted a big kiss on his cheek. He pulled back in surprise. "Do you always do that when the president rides by? If so, I'll take a job working for him." I blushed and looked down at my feet.

When we get off the bus on Valentine's Day, a girl with white-blond hair bursts into tears. 'I Love You, Anjela!' is spray-painted into the snowbank along the parking lot. I don't know if Angela is crying because she is happy or because her heart's desire can't spell. Her honey is waiting with a red rose. They kiss right there in front of everybody. Happy Valentine's Day.

I feel like any minute a guy in a lavender suit will burst into the room with a microphone and bellow, Another alternate-reality moment brought to you by Adolescence!

stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. The news spread from the prison as fast

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?

since people who "discovered" bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place.

Not like a state trooper. Oh, you're a delight. No, it doesn't matter, forget it. Hey, let's go upstairs." "You're not kidding." "Put your hand here and you'll see if I'm kidding." "Well, what do you know about that? It's got a great big cock on it." "Christ!

There was a click and the line was dead. Johnny

Some months after that, Markham was published, subtitle and all, and the first I knew of it was when I got a phone call late one night from a writer friend of mine named Randall P. Garrett. Now Randy lived substantially less than a mile from us, around 110th Street and Broadway, and when he wasn't home working he was around the corner in a neighborhood

Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick?

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!