Quotes About Surprise

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

Great," Simon said. "Maybe I'll even make it back before my mother notices I'm gone. What's the time difference between here and Manhattan?" "You have a mother?" Aline looked amazed.

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, "Oh! I have a baby!" So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel". P12

You were the one who hit me on the roof? I hit you on the jaw. We just happened to be on a roof at the time.

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.

We don't have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon." "You've got a magician named Mel?

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

They've come out at half time and gone bang.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time.