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Quotes About Surprise

The shrill note of a bell made them both jump. "That's the front door," said Giles. "Enter - a murderer," he added facetiously.
~ Agatha Christie
Softly unbolting the door, he stuck the cat's head round the edge and ejaculated a piercing "Miaow." The Scotland Yard inspector, who was standing outside with another man, jumped in spite of himself.
~ Agatha Christie
Extraordinary fellow. Took me by the neck when I wasn't expecting it, and wrung it like a chicken." She moved her neck gingerly.
~ Agatha Christie
El destino parece a veces burlarse de los serers humanos complaciéndose en descubrir lo que éstos quisieran conservar secreto.
~ Agatha Christie
Dead? Dead? That young Norse God in the prime of his health and strength. Struck down all in a moment. Healthy young men didn't die like that, choking over a whiskey and soda...
~ Agatha Christie
Jackie darted at her, kissing her exuberantly.
~ Agatha Christie
followed his instructions, taking up my position by the baize door, and wondering what on earth lay behind the request.
~ Agatha Christie
There is evidently some story being circulated about you. But what that story is you must know as well as anyone. And you are going to tell me' 'It is so wicked,' moaned Mabel. 'Of course it is wicked,' I said briskly. 'There is nothing that you can tell me about people's minds that would astonish or surprise me.
~ Agatha Christie
Why I do believe that's old Jane Marple. Thought she was dead years ago. Looks a hundred.
~ Agatha Christie
There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.
~ Aimee Bender
It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
~ Aimee Bender
Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
~ Aimee Liu
Just give me a second to get my wind back. Who the hell put that pole there?
~ Aisha Tyler
I was still very much a kid but, suddenly, I had the body of a teenager. This is like waking up one day and finding out that your golden retriever puppy shoots lasers from its adorable puppy eyes. Someone is bound to get hurt.
~ Aisha Tyler
I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi." "I'm Goten." "I'm Goku. Hi!" .... "Daddy!
~ Akira Toriyama
And the monkey flips the switch.
~ Akiva Goldsman
You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks.
~ Al Jolson
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
~ Alain de Botton
My kidneys were expecting orange juice. Silly kidneys.
~ Alan Alda
I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.
~ Alan Arkin
It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.
~ Alan Ball
Sometimes the worst thing about change is the shock of the change itself and not actually the new circumstances.
~ Alan Cumming
But we shouldn't be surprised if a one-night stand should yield a lifelong intimate friendship, for what is a dalliance but an alliance that begins with a big D?!
~ Alan Cumming
The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who'd been dieting for six months, only to discover she'd gained four pounds.
~ Alan Dean Foster