Quotes About Surprise

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

The whole world's at sixes and sevens, and why the house hasn't fallen down about our ears long ago is a miracle to me.

This world will never be...what i expected...and if i don't belong...who would've guessed it?

and Smita watched the nurse's startled smile that her American patient had thanked her in Hindi.

In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.

Before Jenna could think, Eric flipped her on her back, hooked his arms behind her

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

You wanna know how to make God laugh?" he said. "Tell him your plans.

The only thing I remember about him now is that he shaved his legs. I was surprised at how much I dug the shaved legs. "Thanks for sharing," Jacob said. I hadn't realized I'd been thinking aloud.

You wanna know how to make God laugh?" he said. "Tell him your plans." (God-shaped Hole)

The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also quite shocking!) and I noticed she had a mouth, so we ended up talking. We talked about flowers, and her poetry classes, and the problems she'd have if she ever wore glasses. It's great to know a girl who has so many eyes, but you really get wet when she breaks down and cries.

Today I asked Chloe to be my girlfriend,and she agreed. I sank my teeth into her neck and drank from her jugular in the library at lunchtime. She's agreed to join me as a vampire and she's moving in next week. April Fool!

I wandered around for hours, dodging falling poo in alleyways

You open a door and find a midget, and there's no way you can be in a bad mood. It's just not possible.

the residents had yet to acquire an appreciation for a South American midget screaming Spanish profanities like Frankie Valli and sucker-punching a fat woman into submission between the jacarandas.

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

But it's no surprise; lost people everywhere and none of them accepting my free maps.

I can't smile. I'm amazed. I'm floored. I'm shocked.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

I couldn't imagine playing in Ligue 1 and the France team. No-one could have seen it.

Boomf is the noise a marshmallow makes when it falls through your letterbox.

We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.

I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were!