Quotes About Surprise

What in Urza's name

Well…Shit." They were, as last words go, not terribly inspired. But

There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody, and where everything will be a surprise, and then writing about it. It's like having a new lover—even the parts you aren't crazy about have the crackling fascination of the unfamiliar.

I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened little me had always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean, but you didn't even want a ship. You wanted wings. I thought you were amazing.

Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray? Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves Magistrate: You do? Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses? Magistrate: But that is not the same thing. Lysistrata: How so – not the same thing? Magistrate: It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the War. Lysistrata: That's our first principle – no War!

The secret to humour is surprise.

It hit me then. Hard. The actual driver I'd hired had been in the trunk the entire time.

Mona knocked at the wrong time. "Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- " Mona shouted through the door. "Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up." Michael grinned at Jon. "My roommate. Brace yourself." Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. "Hi! I'm Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!

Kids do say the darndest things

Death is the most normal, natural thing in life itself, and yet we are amazingly adroit at acting as if it were abnormal and a big surprise.

It's better to be pleasantly surprised than disappointed

I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn't have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn't expect it.

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

You can prepare a list of the qualities you would want in your ideal partner and fall in love with someone totally opposite.

I don't think the day that I was drafted that I expected to be the starting quarterback for the Rams as a seventh-round pick.

'Superunknown,' maybe more than most albums, didn't reveal itself to be what it was until the very end - literally until we were three quarters of the way through mixing it.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

I didn't plan to be a comedian. I didn't plan to be a drag queen. It just kind of evolved.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

I love a quick little magician gag.