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Quotes About Surprise

If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.
~ John Flanagan
paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...
~ John Geddes
who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?
~ John Geddes
my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...
~ John Geddes A Familiar Rain
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!
~ John Green
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
~ John Green
I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.
~ John Grisham
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
~ John Hawkes
Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.
~ John Heywood
You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth
~ john j geddes
There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas—that's the rule
~ john j geddes
No one is more surprised than I that I turned out to be who I am.
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
Nunca hay que anticiparse al resultado, porque entonces no verán el verdadero significado de lo que ocurre y no podrán percibir la emoción de lo inesperado. Antes había
~ John Katzenbach
Es difícil reconocer una cara conocida entre un grupo de desconocidos cuando no se espera
~ John Katzenbach
A veces lo que mas me asusta no es lo desconocido, sino lo previsible y comprensible.
~ John Katzenbach
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.
~ John Keats
The only thing worse than when nothing happens is when something does.
~ John Lanchester
No lo ví venir. Un momento antes: todo, ya sabes: Londres.
~ John Lanchester
How odd to still be shocked by what one has always known.
~ John Lawton
And Matt started crying?
~ John Lescroart
Look out!" Julia cried. "he has a snake! And he'll use it!
~ John Maddox Roberts
When a small, unassuming object exceeds our expectations, we are not only surprised but pleased. Our usual reaction is something like, "That little thing did all that?" Simplicity is about the unexpected pleasure derived from what is likely to be insignificant and would otherwise go unnoticed. The smaller the object, the more forgiving we can be when it misbehaves.
~ John Maeda
And suddenly they came out of the woodwork. I don't actually know what that expression means. What come out of the wood work? Cockroaches maybe. Mice? Are these rhetorical questions, like I just learned about on one of my rare visits to school? Was that a rhetorical question? Is it a paradox when you ask rhetorically if a rhetorical question is a rhetorical question? I think I'd better stop before I get a headache.
~ John Marsden
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
~ John Masefield