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Quotes About Surprise

the German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is gong to be.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
To use a distinction made by E. M. Forster when talking about people in novels, the world now went from flat characters to rounded characters—to the development of personalities whose actions could surprise. The fun began.
~ Stephen Fry
real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying.
~ Stephen Hawking
We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!
~ Stephen Hawking
Gut fand er, dass die Post gekommen war. Weniger gut fand er, dass sie aus dem Jahr 1957 stammte.
~ Stephen Hunter
Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster
~ Stephen King
oh shit it's shit
~ Stephen King
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?
~ Stephen King
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
~ Stephen King
The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
~ Stephen King
Doesn't look like a monster, does he?" "They rarely do.
~ Stephen King
I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.
~ Stephen King
I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture!
~ Stephen King
My girl has got a bun in her oven, and I guess you know who did the damn cooking.
~ Stephen King
They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows.
~ Stephen King
There were no violins or warning bells when I pulled the janitor's theme off the top of the stack and set it before me, no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.
~ Stephen King
We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
~ Stephen King
Harold glared sullenly at him again, the eyes those of a piggy little boy who wants the whole cookie jar to himself. Ain't he going to be surprised, Stu thought, when he finds out a girl isn't a jar of cookies.
~ Stephen King
Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.
~ Stephen King
Sometimes life just walks up to you, excuses itself and punches you in the face.
~ Mike Kunda
Don't fear opening a Gift God gives you simply because the packaging isn't 't what you expected..we can't know what's in a gift given until it's unwrapped
~ Kalon Jackson
I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.
~ CrimethInc.
If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?
~ Toni Sorenson
Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.
~ Joss Whedon