Quotes About Surprise

As for myself, you never know what is round the corner in football.

That is a football game, you don't know what is going to happen when you play.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've experienced is that the good stuff comes from places you don't expect.

I got lost but look what I found.

I had been told I might be drafted in the fourth round. 'Great,' I said at the time.

Chaos A.D.' starts normal, but then it breaks into all these crazy fragments. But the things that surprised people is what makes the album cool.

Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

I'm double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.

I never thought I could win the French Open.

I feel like I'm really lucky because I get to sometimes maybe vibrate at a frequency that's a little deeper and darker than people anticipate.

Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.'

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into — a duckpond.

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!

Lottie was so delighted that she quite forgot her first shocked impression of the attic. In fact, when she was lifted down from the table and returned to earthly things, as it were, Sara was able to point out to her many beauties in the room which she herself would not have suspected the existence of.

She had not expected him to remember her at all and her hard little heart grew quite warm.

Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

When books go out into the world, they take on a life. Sometimes that life is a quiet and dusty one, waiting on the nether regions of library stacks. I have books of poetry like that. With others, the book's life is one of surprise because the book keeps on making its way, on it's own, into intriguing and larger spaces.