Quotes About Surprise
Yo nunca he dibujado la sorpresa, como cientos de maestros ilustradores llevan siglos haciendo, con alguien que se lleva al índice al círculo de la boca, sino que he hecho que de toda la pintura emanara sorpresa.
~ Orhan Pamuk
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Mergulhamos na dor e o susto nos devolve à vida. Porque nada pode ser tão espantoso quanto a vida. Exceto a literatura. Sim, claro, exceto a literatura, que é o único consolo.
~ Orhan Pamuk
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The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.
~ Orson Scott Card
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He was discovered with his feet stuck to the ceiling in the bathroom with his head stuffed in the toilet...
~ Orson Scott Card
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Mother's ironic vision of life as one prank after another
~ Orson Scott Card
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As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
~ Orson Scott Card
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Elemak pulled the shower cord before he soaped. The moment the water hit him he yowled, and then did his own little splash dance, shaking his head and flipping water all over the courtyard while jabbering "ooga-booga looga-booga" just like a little kid.
~ Orson Scott Card
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Kovan?n yüzeyindeki buzu k?rsalar bile hemen tekrar donaca??n?, ama içeri s?cak bir yere koyduklar?nda, istedikleri gibi buzun çözüleceÄŸini onlara söylemedi.
~ Orson Scott Card
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Whatever action you take must be the final action, for you'll get no second chance to surprise the same man.
~ Orson Scott Card
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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
~ Oscar Wilde
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
~ Oscar Wilde
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I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Still, an agility lurks underneath, a wiry surprise, as if he might burst away from the limp at any moment and leave it abandoned behind him.
~ Colum McCann
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition." —Monty Python's Flying Circus
~ Connie Willis
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The perfect metaphor, he said, looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon you, unavoidable even when you try to swerve, unexpected even though there have been warnings all along. [...]
~ Connie Willis
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Kneeling on St. Mary's stone floor she had envisioned the candles and the cold, but not Lady Imeyne, waiting for Roche to make a mistake in the mass, not Eliwys or Gawyn or Rosemund. Not Father Roche, with his cutthroat's face and worn-out hose. She could never in a hundred years, in seven hundred and thirty-four years, have imagined Agnes, with her puppy and her naughty tantrums, and her infected knee. I'm glad I came, she thought. In spite of everything.
~ Connie Willis
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None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.
~ Connie Willis
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Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that.
~ Connie Willis
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The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus." — LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass
~ Connie Willis
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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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White: Well you surprise me. And you've come to what conclusions? Black: I aint. I'm still thinkin. White: Yes. Well, I'm not. Black: Things can change. White: No they cant. Black: You could be wrong. White: I dont think so. Black: But that aint somethin you have a lot of in your life. White: What isnt? Black: Being wrong. White: I admit it when I'm wrong. Black: I dont think so. White: Well, you're entitled to your opinion.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know what color they'll be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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