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Quotes About Surprise

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.
~ John Hiatt
You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.
~ Karl Pilkington
The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
~ Ben Kingsley
If a zombie attack had actually materialized, then they might have had a clue as to how to respond. But a stupendous machine-gun free-for-all in the apartment above them was not an eventuality that they had ever thought of and so it froze them for a time.
~ Neal Stephenson
Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega jackpot Hiro Protagonist - Snow Crash
~ Neal Stephenson
Oh, god!" Carl Hollywood said, and collapsed into a big, tatty, overstuffed chair they kept backstage for such purposes.
~ Neal Stephenson
I think I'm in love," she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up.
~ Neal Stephenson
It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for.
~ Neal Stephenson
To put it mildly, the International Space Station, until now, had never been the kind of place for surprise visits.
~ Neal Stephenson
She heaved two or three times, as if sobbing, and suddenly sneezed -- not a polite 'atchoo' but a thermonuclear explosion so powerful that she staggered in place, nearly losing her balance, and some loitering Hispanic men on the other side of the boulevard looked up alertly, ready for action.
~ Neal Stephenson
It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for." "Do
~ Neal Stephenson
he's surprised your tits come wi' a head attached
~ Neal Stephenson
This was a bit like running into a clan of kilted Scotsmen in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
~ Neal Stephenson
But there was one area in which hackers were routinely underestimated, and that was lock picking. For them, picking locks was a nice way to kick back and relax after a long day of doing pen tests on corporate networks.
~ Neal Stephenson
I think I'm in love," she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up. HOW
~ Neal Stephenson
And she bangs her knee against my thigh. Awesome. A girl hasn't done that to me since like fourth grade.
~ Ned Vizzini
You know what else I did?' he yelled after me as I left. I fingered her! I turned back to look at him. He made me laugh. He pretended to be so confused and helpless, but maybe he was smarter than all of us. 'The inside of a vagina isn't at all what I thought it would feel like,' he shouted excitedly. 'It feels very organized.' Maybe not.
~ Neil Strauss
The great thing about real life is that it will always surprise you. Nothing ever turns out the way you expect. I suppose that's why I write nonfiction. If this were a movie, the organization would already have traced my number, bugged my phone, and kidnapped my brother. Instead I was being transferred to the publicist and media relations executive for a death cult.
~ Neil Strauss
The great thing about real life is that it will always surprise you.
~ Neil Strauss
When a phalanx of paparazzi started taking pictures of Dennis Rodman, who was standing nearby, I looked at Lisa's face, illuminated by the flashbulbs. And out of nowhere, my heart awoke from its torpor and body-checked my chest. When
~ Neil Strauss
There were a lot of other things about village life she thought might surprise her new friend, but she didn't want to undermine Kim's admiration for her culture, which she thought was genuine if not especially well informed.
~ Nell Freudenberger
dando un golpe fuerte en la puerta. Todos se quedan un momento
~ Neus Sans
the cornmeal fritters were very good if you could forget about the maggots
~ Nevil Shute