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Quotes About Surprise

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.
~ Robert Wilson
I had no idea In-N-Out was going to fall on my lap as soon as it did.
~ Lynsi Torres
I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.
~ Lionel Barber
George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea.
~ Britt Robertson
In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.
~ Richard Roundtree
I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'
~ Sheryl Lee
When I was younger, I had no idea that I would be an actor. I had an interest in it, but I never actually did it. I didn't really expect it to be a career path.
~ Ross Butler
I had no idea how long books were supposed to be.
~ Anna Todd
I had no idea about how my life would change after 'Fukrey.'
~ Varun Sharma
I had no idea what 'Life is Strange' was going to be when I auditioned. I had no idea what 'Horizon' was going to be when I auditioned.
~ Ashly Burch
She wanted people to know that love often lies in wait, ready to bloom when least expected.
~ Nicholas Sparks
He must have heard her, because he finally stood and turned with an automatic smile before registering the sight of her. His eyes widened as he absorbed the way she looked, his mouth slightly ajar. He seemed immobilized, struggling anf failing to find his voice. You're... Indescribablly beautiful, he finally whispered. Truly. He was in love with her, she realized with sudden force.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I was IN THE DAMN SHOWER!
~ Nicholas Sparks
Había aparecido en su vida cuando ella menos lo esperaba, de la forma más increíble posible.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Mesmo ler ao sol matinal nada faz para o aliviar. No entanto, isto já não me surpreende,porque o corpo impõe-me agora as suas próprias regras.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Can you forgive me? In a world that I seldom understand, there are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. You, my darling, are the wind that I did not anticipate, the wind that has gusted more strongly than I ever imagined possible. You are my destiny.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing says happen without your expecting them. I have spent what seems like half my life expecting the worst. And it never happens. But on the day it does, it will knock me flat on my back anyway.
~ Nick Hornby
They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.
~ Nick Hornby
When Will had conceived this fantasy and joined SPAT [Single Parents - Alone Together] he had imagined sweet little children, not children who would be able to track him down and come to his house.
~ Nick Hornby
First, what happened to the dreaded Duncan?' To her surprise, Annie found herself stinging a little. 'He wasn't so dreaded. Not by me, anyway.' She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn't up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgement and taste.
~ Nick Hornby
Minneapolis, it turned out, was on the Mississippi—who knew, apart from Americans, and just about anyone else who'd paid attention in geography lessons?—so Annie ended up ticking off something else she'd never expected to see, although here at the less romantic end it looked disappointingly like the Thames.
~ Nick Hornby
This script was like a dish made from things you'd found in your larder and had to use up before they went off: a Welsh mountain, a casino, a blonde with a big bust.
~ Nick Hornby
A wave of nausea came over me. And yet. Sometimes you need a stroke of genius and, lo and behold, genius comes and strokes you
~ Nicole Krauss