Quotes About Surprise

Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.

Si una avanza confiada en dirección a sus sueños, encontrará un éxito inesperado en horas ordinarias. Atravesará un límite invisible. No olviden esto. No olviden que el pensamiento puede interponerse. Olviden olvidar. Buscamos olvidarnos de nosotros mismos, sorprendernos y hacer cosas sin saber cómo ni por qué. El camino de la vida es maravilloso. Se hace de abandono.

One Sometimes you're walking through the woods when a stick leaps into the air and strikes you across the back and shoulders several times, then flies away lost in the underbrush.

The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee.

He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant.

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression.' John Harvey Jones

Alle, die professionell schreiben, wissen, dass sich ein Gedanke oft erst in der Arbeit an der genauen Formulierung klärt. Sie wissen, dass wir vieles nur schreibend wirklich zu Ende denken können. So wie auch unsere besten Gedanken nicht selten aus dem konzentrierten Prozess des Schreibens heraus entstehen und plötzlich da sind, zu unserer eigenen Überraschung.

Lots of kitchens have a "catch-all" drawer. What's in here? It's always a surprise. Soy sauce packets from carryout, rubber bands, pennies, matches, pushpins, a stray refrigerator magnet. I'm only going to say this once: No. Junk. Drawer. Do I make myself clear?

Is that my foot? Silly me, it's a starfish

He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber.

Ahh... Is he gonna sing "Happy birthday" to her next ?

Ah! Speak of the devil, and you find her in your hat.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

The following day, Melvin Belli told Ruth he couldn't, in any capacity, work on the case, citing money and time as the main obstacles. "If," he told the L.A. Daily News, "I were to represent him, I'd want a thorough, thorough mental examination of him before I would consider going into the case; that would cost lots of money, and the family just can't afford it." Richard was not surprised by Belli's position.

Not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover.

She glanced at it and her eyes widened a few f-stops.

I can't help thinking that life isn't just about working out who we are and what makes us tick, it's also about understanding why we aren't where we ever expected to be.

He was just a rich city boy who enjoyed playing pirates and had never expected anyone to stand up to him. He'd come looking for a fight, and now that a fight had found him he didn't know what to do with it.

Was this what falling in love was like? Not something big and amazing that you knew about straight away, like in a story, but a slow thing that crept over you in waves until you woke up one day and found that you were head-over-heels with someone quite unexpected

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

No matter how routine the commute seems, no two trips are ever the same.

If the Martians take the writings of moral philosophers as a guide to what goes on on this planet they will get a shock when they arrive.

Later I will do the same with death. I will behave as if life will just continue. I will talk to a friend the day before he dies, imagining the future, even when he is emaciated, intubated, clearly on his deathbed. When I hear of his passing, it will always be a surprise to me.