Quotes About Surprise

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.

The fun thing with the newer characters in the movie was that anything goes. The life they brought to it just exceeded my expectations. It was just above and beyond.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

On the whole, as the morbid & mucilaginous monkey said when he climbed up to the top of the Palm-tree & found no fruit there - one can't depend upon dates.

Love might come suddenly, unsought, from a place not looked for, and stay for a while before departing into the distance, to a place where it cannot be reached.

God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.

But if an Original, by being as excellent, as new, adds admiration to surprize, then we are at the writer's mercy; on the strong wing of his imagination, we are snatched from Britain to Italy, from climate to climate, from pleasure to pleasure; we have no home, no thought, of our own; till the magician drops his pen: And then falling down into ourselves, we awake to flat realities, lamenting the change, like the beggar who dreamt himself a prince.

Carefully laid plans will miscarry because the unexpected and even the unexpectable will happen.

How I deep judge, how I deep, surprise, and shock at the brutal killing of the innocent people.

Now the Nobel Prize should be the Nobel Surprise. I do not draw any other meaning than as the label to degrading of yourself prize

The Birthday travels patiently and silently to inspire and aspire happiness, with the gifts of surprise and love of family and friends.

Sorry, but looks like I'm dead. *Grin*

A good secret makes things three times as nice.

The miracle of children is that we just don't know how they will change or who they will become.

Alicia doesn't approve of lupi, but she went to bed with one?" "Amazing. After working homicide, you still think people are consistent.

Had I known Mama was going away, I would have thrown a rager.

I wonder how Mr. Brinks would react if I told him my doctor was the surftastic cameraman he fist-bumped earlier in the week.

You never knew what shape your enemies would take." from the book -- Black Gold of the Sun

I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that , if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life

I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that each change, each readjustment, each surprise--good or bad--that came along would be welcomed as part of the whole enthralling experience.

Now and then, I am surprised to read of the death of someone I have known, because I thought he or she had died long ago. Actually, he had only stopped growing.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.