Quotes About Surprise

Defensive coverage is about anticipation, and offensive effectiveness is essentially the art of surprise.

I got a good one. In light of your case and all," Tony said. "Okay. This guy comes home, finds his girlfriend packing. He's shocked. He says, 'What's going on? What are you doing?' Girlfriend says, 'I'm leaving you.' He says, 'You're leaving me? Why?' She says, 'Because you're a pedophile.' 'Yeah, yeah,' he says. 'Big word for a nine-year-old.'

Travers was still stunned. She had never heard Wotan raise his voice, let alone yell. She didn't move a muscle.

Luke I am your father" -Patrick Rain

Every time he thought he'd familiarized himself with its contours, grief surprised him; it was ever bountiful, ever yielding.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

Boogey boogey boogey

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.

Linda combinación: Disney y Suavitel a minutos de coger con un homicida confeso.

With 'Good Will Hunting ' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

gasps a little, blinks his eyes three or four times and indulges in a convulsive shiver

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

I am always, endlessly, hoping to be surprised." "Then I wish it for you.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

What is this moment called when we suddenly recognize what we have never seen? And which gives us a joy like a wound?

Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy:

I moved fast and had Victoria's head between my jaws before she had a chance to dodge. We spun around in the kitchen, the mouse's head in the cat's mouth, and the cat's head in mine.

When Harry had held it, it had shat in his hand.

without warning, the thermometer disappeared from my fingers. Some sudden suction had drawn it inside the cow. I ran my fingers round just inside the rectum—nothing; I pushed my hand inside without success; with a feeling of rising panic I rolled up my sleeve and groped about in vain.