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Quotes About Surprise

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
~ Cheryl Hines
On the afternoon of the fifth day, as I made my way along a narrow and steep stretch of trail, I looked up to see an enormous brown horned animal charging at me. "Moose!" I hollered, though I knew that it wasn't a moose. In the panic of the moment, my mind couldn't wrap around what I was seeing and a moose was the closest thing to it.
~ Cheryl Strayed
This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it take a turn you didn't expect.
~ Cheryl Strayed
open with my knife. Inside, carefully wrapped
~ Cheryl Strayed
This is not how your story ends. It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect.
~ Cheryl Strayed
anything could happen and that everything would. But that doesn't mean I wasn't shocked when it did.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Lady pranced and scraped her front hooves on the ice and then lowered her head and looked at us. I inhaled sharply and Leif fired the gun.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore
~ Chet Atkins
The ability to rapidly shift the focus of one's efforts is a key element in how a smaller force defeats a larger, since it enables the smaller force to create and exploit opportunities before the larger force can marshal reinforcements. Lind notes, and this is especially relevant to business,
~ Chet Richards
One minute, he thought, you're allowed the illusion that things are pretty much the way they've always been and always will be. Next time you turn around, some pinhead rips the world out from under you, and the weirdness starts pouring in from every direction …
~ Chet Williamson
What happened?" "The coffee table tried to kill us," Marley whispered. "What did you do?" "We ducked," Tanner said. "This sounds like the bad trips my patients on drugs describe," Althea said.
~ Chet Williamson
done it. However, just prior to the teacher's arrival, someone had a brainwave. He planted a Diwali bomb with a
~ Chetan Bhagat
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
~ Chevy Chase
Thare iz 2 things in this life for which we are never fully prepared, and them iz twins... Twins are two very interesting acksidents tew happen in sumboddy elses family, but one twin at a time suits me the most.
~ Josh Billings
When he looked up and saw me walking toward him, he winked, causing me to stop dead in my tracks and gape. Clearly, his winks were some sort of superpower, because I swear that if he asked me to jump from the roof of a tall building and then winked, I'd jump.
~ C.P. Smith, Property Of, 2015
What do you suppose? A bee sat on my nose. Then what do you think? He gave me a wink And said, "I beg your pardon, I thought you were the garden."
~ English rhyme
Breasts and bosoms have I known Of varied shapes and sizes, From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprizes.
~ Waldo Pierce
I haven't cut my hair since the quarantine began. Today I stepped on the scale for the first time in a while. Who knew that hair weighs so much?!
~ Author unknown, summer 2020
Here's to the Clock! Whose hands, we pray heaven, When we come home at three, Have stopped at eleven!
~ Oliver Herford, "To the Clock"
But we are never prepared for what we expect...
~ James A. Michener
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
~ H. M. Tomlinson
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
~ H. V. Prochnow
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Liya's letter threw her parents
~ Ha Jin