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Quotes About Surprise

You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there's one more step? I'm like that all the time.
~ Steven Wright
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
~ Alan Jackson
That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.
~ Angela Merkel
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
~ Barry Levinson
You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
~ Donald Glover
So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.
~ Julie Powell
You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.
~ Merrill Markoe
From time to time historians need to be shocked.
~ Peter Burke
Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
~ Rakim
There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.
~ Regina Spektor
I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.
~ Rhys Darby
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.
~ Richard O'Brien
Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?
~ Salman Rushdie
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.
~ Susan Sontag
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
~ Elliott Smith
For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
~ Fernando Alonso
No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this.
~ Garrison Keillor
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.
~ Jennifer Aniston
They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I've learned is they can actually do all three at the same time. Who knew?
~ Josh Duhamel
Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
~ Carol Kent
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."
~ Frank Carson
I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.
~ Koki Hirota