Quotes About Surprise

He goggled at her as if she'd said something very strange about beetroots.

What's that?" he yelped. "Don't worry," said Ford, "they haven't started yet." "Thank God for that," said Arthur, and relaxed. "It's probably just your house being knocked down

The first thing that hit their eyes was what appeared to be a coffin. And the next four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine things that hit their eyes were also coffins.

First there had been the fridge.

Writing episodically meant that when I finished one episode I had no idea about what the next one would contain. When, in the twists and turns of the plot, some event suddenly seemed to illuminate things that had gone before, I was as surprised as anyone else.

Ah, thank you,' said Ford. He and Arthur took their jynnan tonnyx. Arthur sipped his, and was surprised to discover it tasted very like a whisky and soda.

Just says prepaid ticket for Mr. Dirk Gently to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be collected. Were you not expecting to go to Albuquerque today, sir?" "I was expecting to end up somewhere I didn't expect, I just wasn't expecting it to be Albuquerque, that's all." "Sounds like it's an excellent destination for you, Mr. Gently. Enjoy your flight.

computer chattered to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because reason was in fact out to lunch.

The arkleseizure cometh!

It is said that there is nothing surprising about the notion of, for instance, a person suddenly thinking about someone they haven't thought about for years, and then discovering the next day that the person has in fact just died.

My name," he said, "is Slartibartfast." Arthur

At some distance down the corridor it seemed suddenly as if somebody started to beat on a bass drum. He listened to it for a few seconds and realized that it was just his heart beating. He listened for a few seconds more and realized that it wasn't his heart beating, it was somebody down the corridor beating on a bass drum.

I agree," he said. "You have a horse in your bathroom, and I will, after all, have a little port.

Then who is it?" said Arthur. "Well," said Ford, "if we're lucky it's just the Vogons come to throw us in to space." "And if we're unlucky?" "If we're unlucky," said Ford grimly, "the captain might be serious in his threat that he's going to read us some of his poetry first….

Wandering around the Web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science-fiction devices that deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact it isn't like it, it is it.

Arthur ekranlara bak?p gözlerini k?rp??t?rd? ve önemli bir ÅŸeyi kaç?r?yormuÅŸ hissine kap?ld?. Birden bunun ne olduÄŸunu fark etti. bu uzay gemisinde çay var m?? diye sordu.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.

Don't stand there looking like a startled whatsisname, what are those things that aren't seals? Much worse than seals. Big, blubbery things. Dugongs. Don't stand there looking like a startled dugong. Why has that . . .

the vaguely uncomfortable feeling you got from sitting on a seat which is warm from somebody else's bottom is just as real a feeling as the one you get when a rogue giant elephant charges out of the bush at you

My name,' he said, '. . . is Slartibartfast.

He waited and waited for another accident to happen. The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

The mice will see you now," he said.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Ah," said Arthur, "er …" He had an odd feeling of being like a man in the act of adultery who is surprised when the woman's husband wanders into the room, changes his trousers, passes a few idle remarks about the weather and leaves again.