Quotes About Surprise

Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs?

I had noticed that I had no difficulty conversing with robots, because absolutely nothing surprised them. They were incapable of surprise. A very sensible quality.

I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that inanimate objects were no less fallible than people. They, too, could be forgetful. And, if you had enough patience, you could catch them by surprise.

I always thought there would be ice in hell

One has only to look through the history of science to reach the most probable conclusion: that the shape of things to come is determined by things we do not know today, and by what is unforeseeable.

There I could look at heads cut open in various ways, innumerable ways, the whole machinery drawn and colored with the utmost precision. I especially loved the pictures of brains, whose different coils were distinguished by every color of the rainbow. Many years later, when in an anatomy lab I saw a real brain for the first time, I was surprised (though of course I knew better) that it was so drab a thing.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Elephants are therefore left only the option of being afraid of little things that sneak up and surprise them. Such things include mice, loud noises, spreadsheet surprises and sudden disappointments, food that is on the menu but unavailable, unannounced visitors, word of the displeasure of a higher executive, bad news about the effect of NutraSweet on the human kidney.

While she couldn't deliver a comic routine to save her life, she had a well-developed ability to look blank and confused, and she found to her surprise that she enjoyed the laughter.

Anche nelle poesie del Catena, che pure sono guerra e battaglia, cerco la bellezza di un istante che lo colse di sorpresa, indicandogli una possibile salvezza. Di tutte le ricchezze che io ho viste...

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

I am always late. If I arrived early, my hostess would faint.

The world is here to surprise us. My most lasting insights have occurred off the [meditation] cushion, not on it.

never to be caught by another Pearl Harbor.

When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.

I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the I love you was it.

And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.

The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

It was like when you see a movie in the theater during the day, and when you leave the movie, you can't believe that it's still daylight outside

I ate the brownie, and it tasted a little weird, but it was still a brownie, so I still liked it. But this was not an ordinary brownie. Since you are older, I think you know what kind of brownie it was.

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

For me," he says, "the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew." In a new poem, he wrote, he "meets himself coming home.

Your poem effectively begins at the first moment you've surprised or startled yourself. Throw away everything that preceded that moment, and begin with that moment.

They hid, Bos came over the hill, looked puzzled, and Custer let loose with a bullet that whizzed over his brother's head. Bos turned