Quotes About Surprise

himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance

Once she calmed down, she told Jobs that he had a full sister, Mona Simpson, who was then an aspiring novelist

Friends were surprised that a sensuous and handsome man such as Einstein, who could have almost any woman fall for him, would find himself with a short and plain Serbian who had a limp and exuded an air of melancholy. "I would never be brave enough to marry a woman unless she were absolutely healthy," a fellow student said to him. Einstein replied, "But she has such a lovely voice.

One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win.

I had forgotten that Death was watching from all sides; that it comes at you from the place you least expect.

Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?

Fuck me, Bat gasped, It's like an angel shat ice cream coffee rainbows in my mouth.

Science fiction didn't see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn't see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.

I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It was a huge brown bastard; had a body like a turd with legs and beady black eyes full of secret rat knowledge.

The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning.

I didn't want to find out that instead of getting my powers from a transcendent scientist-mentor, I was grown from the DNA of Aryan super-athletes and Hitler's personal sex midgets! I didn't even know Hitler had personal sex midgets!

That's how the future always arrives: you don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future.

You wanted a more interesting world… Maybe I'm growing up quickly. Maybe I'm better than you planned… Maybe I'm just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I'm punishing you.

I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It

Keep track of situations that occur spontaneously or out of the realm of your control.

do something expressing your kindness to someone who will be totally surprised by your actions.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

Food in the trash is like the tossed-and-found.

Man, talk about having a skeleton in the closet—this

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.