Quotes About Surprise

I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

Have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine

Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Daran habe ich gar nicht gedacht!

Creativity always comes a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that creativity be forthcoming. Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity that it will turn out to be

people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened... Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be... We are apparently on the trail here of some sort of invisible or hidden hand that beneficially hides difficulties from us.

Mary looked at the picture for some time without saying anything. Indeed, she didn't know what to say; she was taken aback, she was at a loss. She had expected a cubist masterpiece, and here was a picture of a man and a horse, not only recognisable as such, but even aggressively in drawing.

Private. Not to be opened, was written in capital letters on the cover. He raised his eyebrows. It was the sort of thing one wrote in one's Latin Grammar while one was still at one's preparatory school. Black is the raven, black is the rook, But blacker the thief who steals this book! It was curiously childish, he thought, and he smiled to himself. He opened the book. What he saw made him wince as though he had been struck.

Las respuestas que se esperan con impaciencia siempre llegan cuando uno no está en casa.

ci sono tre tipi di uomini: quelli che vivono davanti al mare, quelli che si spingono dentro il mare, e quelli che dal mare riescono a tornare vivi. […] vedrai la sorpresa quando scoprirai quali sono i più felici.

Podía suceder cualquier cosa en aquel instante. La verdad es que hay momentos en los que la omnipresente y lógica red de las secuencias causales se rinde, cogida por sorpresa por la vida, y baja al patio de butacas, mezclándose con el público, para dejar que en el escenario, bajo las luces de una libertad vertiginosa y repentina, una mano invisible pesque en el infinito regazo de lo posible y, entre millones de cosas, sólo permita que ocurra una.

El desconcertante descubrimiento de lo silencioso que es el destino cuando de repente estalla.

Love] may bring surprise, joy, despair and, occasionally, perfect happiness.

A nudist? In Edinburgh? Does he realise what parallel we're on?

Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised.

your jaw would hit the table in astonishment.

Caution was always required when you looked under a bed—anybody's bed, even your own.

We should not be too surprised by the kindness of strangers, as it is always there.

acknowledge the unexpected exchange of fellow feeling between