Quotes About Surprise

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

Oh really? You're cold?

Fergus's eyes went wide. "I don't believe it." "I know," Archie said. "This is huge!" "No," Fergus said. "I mean, I don't believe you hired the blinking Pinkertons!

Words came floating toward us, pieces of sentences. Big, deep words magnified by stadium speakers: "… two-minute warning! … halftime show!" Darius and I locked eyes. In the same moment, we both knew where we were. We were at the Super Bowl. The thing we were inside jerked. Rumbled. Started to move. And then I understood—we were inside a giant stage. One of those enormous platforms they wheel out during the Super Bowl halftime. And we were the halftime show.

Like flies in custard." "Worms in ice cream," said Donna. "Maggot jelly," said Eugene.

Croc was furiously signaling for him to pull over. Lady Godiva's hand was over her mouth. She looked terrified.

Man plans and God laughs," said Seth.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagined anything of who do the things that no one can imagine

Sometimes it's the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.

I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

It never would have occurred to me in 'Days of Future Past' to cast Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask, and yet as soon as he got onscreen I couldn't think of anyone else.

This funny little film we did called 'Sharknado' has caused so much buzz, I would have never imagined. It's literally caused more buzz than anything else I've ever done. I had no idea that it was going to turn into this phenomenon.

I really wasn't expecting to fall so hard for Phil. As a matter of fact, when my dad said he was talking to Phil Jackson about him coming to L.A. to coach the Lakers, I tried to argue against it.

The Celtics were always going to pick me No. 1, but Philly didn't know that.

I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

I came to photography by accident.