Quotes About Surprise

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.

The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.

No one had ever given her music before.

What?!" Tommy shouted. His face twitched

MÄ›la narozeniny, ale dárek dala ona mÄ›.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.

Here's another joke: "She calls me up and says, 'Get over here. There's nobody home.' So I get over there, and guess what. There's nobody home.

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, Martin, Martin, come quickly! I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: Darling, it's empty!

Perhaps he kept surprising her, she pondered, because she was limiting him in her mind.

That is the excitement of life, he said when he was finished. The not knowing. It is often best not to know.

And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a soft exclamation of surprise

Is that Eduardo Lucas of Godolphin Street?" "Yes." "You will not see him." "Why not?" "He was murdered in his house last night." My friend has so often astonished me in the course of our adventures that it was with a sense of exultation that I realized how completely I had astonished him.

My friend had listened with amused surprise to this long speech, which was poured forth with extraordinary vigour and earnestness, every point being driven home by the slapping of a brawny hand upon the speaker's knee. When our visitor was silent Holmes stretched out his hand and took down letter "S" of his commonplace book. For once he dug in vain into that mine of varied information.

The man was dressed only in his Burberry overcoat, his trousers, and an unlaced pair of canvas shoes. As he fell over, his Burberry, which had been simply thrown round his shoulders, slipped off, exposing his trunk.

To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.

La belleza me sorprendió como una especie de dolorosa melancolía.

It was like exploring a place that you have seen in a dream, where everything is just where you expect it and yet everything is a surprise.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Casar-se de maneira geral significa colocar a mão dentro de um saco sem ver o que há dentro dele e esperar tirar uma enguia de um emaranhado de serpentes.

In a while he reached across the table and took her hand in his. He could not have known that he was trying to comfort a building that had been struck by lightning.

Hide!' she whispered. 'The vegetarians are coming.