Quotes About Surprise

Aunt Libby: "I think I'm getting married! I've been dying to tell you." Raven: "You are? Congrats! Dad didn't mention..." Aunt Libby: "Well, okay, it's not official or anything. In fact, we haven't officially gone out yet. I just met him last night.

showing up to school without knowing what classes i'm taking or where the classroom are located. the worst one was showing up for exams i hadn't studied for

Heck, I didn't even know my mom had dreams. How could I not have known that?

He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of stillness to counteract all outward evidence of surprise, fear, anything.

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.

He put his feet down into the little puddle she'd chosen. They were huge next to hers, and they both stared for a moment. Then he moved in one smooth motion to her rock. // "What are you doing?" she gasped, just like the heroine in a bad play.

The last person Jemma expected to welcome into her bedchamber that night was her husband. Though of course she would have to invite him in at some point if they were to embark on their heir-making activities.

Child!' Eleanor exclaimed. 'You didn't say there'd been a child!' 'I said a catastrophe,' her mother replied. 'And believe me, in cases such as these, the words are one and the same.

She gave a little scream. "You oughtn't to creep up on a person!" He smiled down at her. "You'll have to get used to me following you out of rooms. If you are determined to be exasperated with me, and I am determined to be with you, I shall probably become very familiar with your defiant back leading the way to a door." That was so foolish that she found herself nearly smiling.

And that was the moment my mother turned up, in character as a raving sociopath.

I found myself buying a cuckoo clock that, instead of a cuckoo, had a large wooden penis that popped in and out of it every hour. I gave it to John Lennon when I went to visit him.

El miedo lleva al pensamiento por caminos inesperados.

I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when I'm working on a story, I'll find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where they've taken the story. It's as if they have a life all their own. What I do is create them and then let them go on to entertain me. . . .

At the sound of their footsteps, the Hessians swung around and drew their swords. Katie screamed, Q yelled, and Matt did the one thing that he had so hoped he wouldn't. He closed his eyes and didn't move!

From what Adam said, the young Adam that is, his grandmother was very pretty. He said that his grandfather took one look at her and decided that the 1700s would be as good a time as any to call home." "Oh, yuck!" Tony said, making a face.

A tr?i singur înseamn? a nu mai cere nimic ÅŸi a nu mai aÅŸtepta nimic de la via??. Singura surpriz? a singur?t??ii este moartea.

We dismiss the skeptic, we speak of an "automatism of doubt," while we never say of a believer that he has fallen into an "automatism of faith." Yet faith is much more mechanical than doubt, which has the excuse of proceeding from surprise to surprise — inside perplexity, it is true.

To live in solitude means to relinquish all expectations about life. The only surprise in solitude is death.

Meeting, after several years, someone we used to know as a child, the first glance almost always suggests that some great disaster must have befallen him