Quotes About Surprise

Levantó la mirada. Y vio que Chacko había desaparecido y en su lugar había un monstruo.

They had not understood - they'd not known what a hole you faced when you turn around, and the one you'd thought would always be there was gone.

My heart dropped.

But Bratton was shocked at how young he appeared.

This has never been a problem before," people say. Until one day it is.

But that proved not to be the case.

So it struck me as odd to find

He looked like the victim of a forceps delivery.

Nos asombramos de no haber envejecido desde la última vez que nos vimos.

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

He looked and sounded exactly like a real psychiatrist. Until he opened his mouth. Let's ask God, he said.

I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

George had been surprised by my ability to leave him. He had not seen that in me.

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

To nobody's surprise, steroid use is common among gay men. When you combine a love for men with a love for drama, you end up with a guy on steroids.

You're at the crack addict's apartment? Having a little sandwich? he says. From the tone of his voice, you'd think I just told him I was hanging out at a playground wearing a NAMBLA t-shirt.

would like to chop you up into small, manageable pieces and grill you on a hibachi, then feed you to my shar-pei. But all that comes out is Welcome to moviefone!

I was thirty-five and I'd thought I was playing political poker and it turned out I'd been playing in some other game I didn't even know about. Like I'd been holding a hand of kings and then the people around the table started putting down more kings, a king with a squid's face, a naked king with goat's horns holding up a bough of holly. A Russian king with an insect's voice.

change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it

any for some time until they finally went into an area of the Maze where they had never been before: Cheese Station N. They squealed with delight. They found what they had been looking for:

natural for change to continually occur, whether you expect it or not.

Now he realized it was natural for change to continually occur, whether you expect it or not. Change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it.

Change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it.

What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.