Quotes About Surprise

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

In the natural childbirth classes my wife and I took, the birthing process was represented by a hand puppet being pushed through a sock. So at the actual birth I was shocked to see all this blood. The thing I had prepared myself for was a lot of lint.

You can't live the story of your life properly without the occasional addition of a little sudden drama.

Yes, boys and girls, today's near-death experience was brought to you by the number eight and the letters WTF!

The door opened, and Ren emerged, and my heart did a thing.

As we locked the front door behind us, she said, "How do you keep getting in without my knowing it? Did Jill give you a key without mentioning it to me?" "Trade secret," I said. "What trade is that? Cat burglar?" "Yes, although I prefer the technical term." "What's that?" "Music promoter.

When you stop being surprised, you've stopped living.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. —Alice Walker

He thinks I will hit him. Strike him, with a large stick. Foolish mule. Oh no, I am much more cunning. I will surprise him with kindness… until he grows calm and dispenses with all watchfulness, and then… ha! I shall punch him in the nose! Won't he be surprised! No mule can match wits with me. Oh yes, many have tried, and almost all have failed!

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn't expect it at just 19 years old.

I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.

People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.

Life has a great deal up its sleeve.

Always know I have something up my sleeve.

When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel.

I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.

When I was younger, I thought once I hit 25, I'd slow down. Nope!

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.