Quotes About Surprise

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

Funny how life messed with you.

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

the worst happens when you least expect it

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

You never know what show is going to change your life.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn't imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn't really imagine it hadn't.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.