Quotes About Surprise

seen that quick alteration of her features

seeing his face light up when I told him. He was so happy

Dylan Geer! Why would you…oh, you must

The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over.

You didn't know what good things were going to happen to you until you were right in the middle of them, so it was best to always be ready.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

Serendipity (n.) finding something good without looking for it

Da qualche tempo infatti un'ansia, che lui non sapeva capire, lo inseguiva senza riposo: l'impressione di non fare in tempo, che qualche cosa di importante sarebbe successo e l'avrebbe colto di sorpresa. [...] Di giorno in giorno Drogo rimandava la decisione, si sentiva del resto ancora giovane, appena venticinque anni. Quell'ansia sottile lo inseguiva tuttavia senza riposo, [...].

Muhakkak farkl? birÅŸeyler olagelmeli,öyle bir ÅŸey ki insan:Art?k sonuna gelmiÅŸ olsam bile beklemeye deÄŸmiÅŸ diyebilmeli.

Hot damn! I got it," Stick shouted as she ran out of the bathroom, her face covered in soapsuds. " 'Zoe!

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

Good God!" he said. "Are you a faculty wife?

I sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.

I sat up and the room was full of a man with a gun.

They turned and found themselves facing a bullet head on an ICBM body lumpily stuffed into a black shirt and a brown suit. It was as though King Kong were making a break for it, hoping to smuggle himself back to his island disguised as a human being.

telling the jokes—was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane?

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down. -Savitar