Quotes About Surprise

Turns out C. J. Rackoff is allergic to peanut butter. Who knew? And I love peanut butter.

the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

You'd taken my disbelief into Your love, keeping them to show me later, so that we could both laugh.

It went okay. Kaye shifted her eyes to one side and shrugged. Rachel Browning tried to pull down my shorts. Did she succeed? Cross asked. Got them down to my curlies, Kaye said. The young men looked ready to appear shocked, should Cross be. Cross laughed. Jesus, Kaye. I never know what I'm going to hear from you. You drive my PR folks nuts.

But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation

So many of us find ourselves saying, "but he was so great!" Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it's important to remember that they did.

Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.

Nothing increases the odds of victory more than letting the enemy think he''s already taken your secret weapon."

were there when I got home, I could blurt out the truth

something new every time." The sound of forest insects comes from the phone. Then the screen lights up with the green sweep of my backyard. Even from the kitchen counter, I can see Jet's naked body sitting astride mine on the patio steamer chair. "That didn't come off Pornhub," Paul says. "That's the real deal.

diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this.

Danny was surprised that Ellis had let Carl stay so long. But when he thought about it some more, he understood. Carl Sims was Death. In the command trailer, death was contained. But once they put Carl behind that tree in the backyard-with clearance to shoot-Warren Shields was a dead man. This certainty roiled Danny's gut in a way few things ever had

La vida es una broma solo que tú vas a llegar al final del chiste... antes

When Shelly announced she was pregnant in the summer of 1974, everyone took a gulp of air. Maybe this would help?

catch me with an unexpected result

Fermi turned to Bohr with weary eyes and a slanted smile, and shrugged. "So we thought we had discovered new elements. We even named them—hesperium, ausonium. Wrong! Mythical! They were ordinary old barium and iodine. We were careful—too careful.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.

In the 1995 'World War 3,' it was Dave Taylor's first WCW match. I remember looking across the ring and seeing Dave give Hogan an uppercut. Hogan wasn't used to being hit with such ferocity, and seeing the look on his face was an absolute picture.