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Quotes About Surprise

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.
~ Jean Simmons
The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
~ Jeannette Walls
When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now...once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time.
~ Joan Rivers
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.
~ John Keats
Nobody heard anything ahead of time.
~ John Mellencamp
If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.
~ John Wesley Harding
I'm not sure that Enrique Pena expected Donald Trump to take him up on his offer to come to Mexico and meet with him in the short period of time that there is between now and the elections.
~ Jose Diaz-Balart
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
~ Juan Williams
machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time
~ Alan Moore
Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.
~ Ernesto Sabato
You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Fools
It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.
~ Randall Munroe
Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them beat you to a bloody pulp. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency
~ P.S. Martinez
Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.
~ J.C. Lillis, A&B
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated, ' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
~ Nadia Comaneci
One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.
~ Tamron Hall
What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together
~ Paul Smith
Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last.
~ Vanessa L. Williams
When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!
~ J. K. Rowling
No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.
~ Darynda Jones
No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible.
~ Pau Gasol
With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.
~ Susan Sarandon
It is a rude awakening, is it not, to discover that people change, or that they have other facets to their character that we did not suspect?
~ Mary Balogh