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Quotes About Surprise

wet with it. In that same moment the room beyond the doorway was
~ Simon Kernick
What the hell are you doing here? You weren't on the guest list. Hell, you people aren't on anybody's guest list. If you turned up at a funeral, the corpse would walk out on you.
~ Simon R. Green
I've been here a long time," I said finally. "But I think what I truly believe in is people. They can always surprise you. They have such potential . . . They can change and grow and become so much more than they or anyone else would ever have thought possible. Unlike gods. And at the end of the day, I believe that people should be kind to each other.
~ Simon R. Green
All the assassins that could have come after me, and I had to get a double-jointed contortionist kick-boxer.
~ Simon R. Green
You put butter in a pocket watch and it's bound to mess up the works even if it is the very best butter.
~ Simon R. Green
So much for the element of surprise," I said. She sniffed. "I'd rather have the element of naked threat any day.
~ Simon R. Green
I appear to be standing in a dead dog," said Tommy Oblivion. "And not in a good way.
~ Simon R. Green
Oh God, it's her, run!
~ Simon R. Green
You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.
~ Simon R. Green
Everything you are afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot conceive of that happen.
~ Simon Van Booy
Holy shit! Where's a cell phone camera when you need one?
~ Simone Elkeles
I flip open my phone to text Jessica: Me: Guess who's pregnant? Jess: u? Me: Get real. Jess: ur mom? Me: yep Jess: Mazel tov!? Me: Don't congratulate me, plz Jess: Could b worse Me: How? Jess: Could be u? Me: I'm a virgin. Jess: Nobody's perfect.
~ Simone Elkeles
You'd be surprised how far away half dead is from fully dead,
~ Simone Elkeles
Uh, Alex," Enrique laughs. "There's a trick-or-treater here to see you.
~ Simone Elkeles
Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit?
~ Simone Elkeles
Nikki looks at me, confused. "What's wrong?" I've got a gun stashed in my closet. "Nothin'.
~ Simone Elkeles
His high school girlfriend. I caught them in the act." "You caught them having sex at Homestyle Buffet?" Carlos chimes in, confused and maybe a little amused.
~ Simone Elkeles
What did you come here for? And where's Enrique?" "He, uh, left," I say nervously. "I think I scared him away." "You? I don't think so." "I showed him what I was wearing under my coat." Alex's eyebrows shoot up.
~ Simone Elkeles
That shouldn't have happened," she says, throwing back her shoulders in a stance as stiff as a statue's. "What? The kiss or you likin' it so much?
~ Simone Elkeles
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
~ Sir Alex Ferguson
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
~ Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
Love is like Christmas; you're surprised by this wonderful gift and can hear the angels sing.
~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
~ Sir William Joseph Slim