Quotes About Surprise

I was walking down the street. Something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.

I was walking through the park. I had a very bad asthmatic attack. These three asthmatics attacked me. I know . . . I should have heard them hiding.

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

What do you suppose? A bee sat on my nose. Then what do you think? He gave me a wink And said, "I beg your pardon, I thought you were the garden."

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Por lo demás, el hecho de que una dama de la aristocracia inglesa se venga a nuestro domicilio y se desnude por completo para hablar con nosotros ocurre todos los días y ya no le extraña a nadie.

No, si ya se sabe. Siempre aparece alguien que no te esperas para nada.

Las patatas gratinadas, en efecto, están ya en el horno. Pero no se le escapa que ésa es tan sólo una verdad relativa, pues en cualquier momento una loca, o el mismo Spider, podrían entrar por la puerta de imprevisto y podrían negar esta evidencia y todas las demás, todas, incluso la sobria verdad de las patatas gratinadas.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.

Knowledge crunching is an exploration, and you can't know where you will end up.

Do not perceive through overly judgmental eyes, prone to damnation. If you do, you are constrained to witness nothing but your notion of perfection, either fulfilled or violated. Gaze at life rather as though you were always blessing it, consecrating it, humbly, as holy, and then your biases will be relaxed and your curiosity will be aroused and surprise; there, in your peripheral, a glimmer after which you go, and it is gone, but its absence gleams.

It was as if the unassuming little fellow had all these months been concealing a blunderbuss beneath his coat, and now he rose and suddenly revealed it to the rotund North, who sat there aghast and goggle-eyed, fingering his slingshot.

Art is an institution to which we turn when we want to feel a shock of surprise. We feel this want because we sense that it is good for us once in a while to receive a healthy jolt. Otherwise we would so easily get stuck in a rut and could no longer adapt to the new demands that life is apt to make on us. The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

He tilted the box toward a chipped Pottery Barn blue bowl, and the little blue clumps, like cerulean rat turds, tumbled out, hitting the porcelain with a surprisingly metallic thud. It sounded like pennies dumped into an aluminum trash can.

an idiot with delusions of military adequacy, but I expected better from the Guards. Not much, but a little.

The empirical finding that users often freely reveal their innovations has been a major surprise to innovation researchers.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Sometimes life turns its back to people. A misfortune, a physical accident or a mental emergency can take them by surprise. Similar to the unexpected assault on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in New York, which took a whole nation by surprise , the lives of individuals can be suddenly disrupted.

I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded)

Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!" "Obviously not," the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice.

If Gray Wing thinks he's going to take us by surprise, then he can think again! We'll be ready. He halted and stared between the trees. Beyond, the moor rose like a spine arching against the setting sun. You want battle? He pictured Gray Wing training his cats to fight. I'll give you war.

Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and Brook up to Firestar. The Clan leader's eyes stretched wide in surprise. "Stormfur...and Brook! What are you doing here?" "There'll be time to explain later," Stormfur meowed. "For now, Firestar, put us to work.

But I though you were dead!" "Obviously not. Now, let's get out of here!