Quotes About Surprise

Duncan would not have been impressed had he known all of that.He was hoping their first meeting would be their last.They were to become great friends,though.They just didn't know it yet.

What ball?" Selena gasped, truly surprised. He was not foxed, and he was not being blasé. The infuriating man really had no idea what she was talking about.

Many strange things happen in this world

Christ alive. Satan is a very beefy boy.

I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind--dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.

And sudden day unbuttoned her blouse.

We were surprised once, long ago; and now we can never be surprised again.

But since the Shanghai Surprise, statisticians show that any move in the S&P is sufficient to explain 40 percent of moves in the yen, and vice versa. As they should have nothing in common, this implies that neither market is being priced efficiently. Instead, these entangled markets are driven by the same investors, using the same flood of speculative money.

Trouble my dear readers is everywhere. We are all in this world to bear our share of it and we must not be surprised when those who inflict it appear suddenly as though out of nowhere.

When you see me running, its already too late." Harry Hubbard

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open.

you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings … serendipitously." ---The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

I am no longer surprised by anything and I feel no distress at seeing my complete helplessness. On the contrary, I glory in it and every day I expect to discover fresh flaws in myself. In fact, this revelation of my nothingness does me much more good than being enlightened on matters of faith.

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

It's Pearl Harbour, sir. But with muffins.

If there is one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

My brother Henry must heir the land, My brother Frank must be at his command; Whilst I, poor Jack, will do that That all the world will wonder at!

We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.

The sensation of a baseball bat to the face was not any more pleasant when it came from an unexpected direction, without warning.

You think you know someone your whole life, and he turns out to be a German-gypsy interdimensional dark elf spy who can cloud men's minds. Go figure.

And now for something completely different . . .

Letters] never failed to surprise and please him, because they reminded him that he existed in other people's thoughts.