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Quotes About Surprise

was the last person he wanted to see right now. Even the ghost of Napoleon, come down to slice a rapier through his gullet, would have been preferable.
~ Julia Quinn
James climbed in and pulled a hunk of bread from a satchel on the seat. "What the devil is going on?" "Mmmble nnn munchke." "I beg your pardon?
~ Julia Quinn
She enjoyed writing notes, especially to people she hadn't seen in years (she'd always liked to imagine their surprise when they opened her envelope) (...)
~ Julia Quinn
She obviously wasn't going fast enough, because he picked her up and dropped her out the window himself, where she landed in Dunford's waiting arms. "You're here too?" she asked weakly. "If I were you, I'd be grateful for my presence. Ashbourne is nearly ready to explode.
~ Julia Quinn
I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.
~ Glen Campbell
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
~ Martin O'Malley
Spoilers are inevitable.
~ Jamie Parker
Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.
~ Kat Dennings
I'm building my fan base around the fact that here's someone who does things a little differently, who brings other musical influences into country music, and you never really know what she's going to do next.
~ Lari White
Initially, I didn't want to watch 'The Dirty Picture.'
~ Waheeda Rehman
I was very young when I made my debut. I was only 16 and it was a bit of a shock that I was involved, but there were a lot of injuries.
~ Harry Wilson
I don't want to be 'the magician'; I want to be an innocent bystander along with the magical moment.
~ Michael Carbonaro
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
What's so great about inspiration is sometimes it finds you when you're not looking.
~ Wong Kar-wai
I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
~ Iris Apfel
I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.
~ Alex Borstein
My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.
~ Gemma Chan
Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.
~ Ry Cooder
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
No, I didn't expect Mancini to become a manager, because of the type of player he was - he was an intelligent player, of course, but I didn't think he had the desire to become a manager. But I guess if you speak to some of my team-mates they'd probably say they didn't expect me to either. I certainly didn't expect it.
~ Gianfranco Zola
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
~ Spike Lee
I sort of got fooled into acting, actually. I never intended to do it.
~ Dakin Matthews
I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.
~ Jim DeMint
Her time on Twin Moons was really getting off to a great start. She hadn't even been awake for one whole morning and she'd already given a peep show to strangers and eaten a whole bowl full of horny fruit by mistake. What the hell was she going to do tonight?
~ Evangeline Anderson