Quotes About Surprise

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

When the doorbell rings at three o'clock in the morning its never good news

I let go and dropped on all fours... as quiet as a cat. Actually I landed on a cat. It screeched and howled then shot away. So much for stealth!

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.

WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

It was the week before my sixteenth birthday when the boy fell out of the door. Is that a good start?

WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. Alex

That's one of the pleasures of living in London. It's so huge, so jammed with interesting buildings, that it's always taking you by surprise.

The man was enormously fat. When he sat down, the metal chair disappeared beneath the spread of his buttocks and Alex was surprised it could even take his weight.

It was the sort of thing Alex had seen a thousand times in films and on television, and he was shocked by how different the reality was.

It was almost like discovering that Enid Blyton, in her spare time, had turned to pornography.

The question sounded innocent but arrived like the twist of a knife.

And why would three old university friends who only saw each other occasionally for adventure holidays have suddenly come to blows?

You've already said you're going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.

I sent a car to pick you up at school, Alex. I thought you might like a lift. I didn't expect a declaration of war.

I nearly choked on my milkshake.

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.

I think I'm constantly surprised that adults can't deal with illogical things or thing that are weird or psychedelic. I've never really lost that.

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

I couldn't believe it when Penguin offered me the chance to publish a book.