Quotes About Surprise

We ran to the bedroom and found Gloria pumping half a clip into a picture of her ex-husband. She dropped the gun onto the floor, turned, and mooned the picture and farted. Lula and I took a step back. "Sorry," Gloria said. "I get gas when I eat too much sugar.

Stand back. I'm going to give the eye.' Grandma pulled a .45 long barrel out of her black patent leather purse and pointed it at Bella. 'You put your finger to your eye and I'll put a hole in your head that's so big you could push a potato through it.

So much for the sexy moment, I thought. Saved by monkey gas.

If I had a Yeti hiding in my closet I'd take the cat and go someplace else too," Lula said. We

in front of my condo when I pulled in. He was in a

I got a body stuck to my windshield!" Lula yelled. "I can't drive like this! I can't get my wipers to work. How am I supposed to drive with a dead guy on my wipers?

No way," she said. "The lid was already up." "Did you stick the dead guy with a pin to make sure he was dead?" "I didn't do that either. And I only did that once

Well that's disappointing," Grandma Mazur said. "I expected something better from her.

It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in front of the television. When out in the lot there arose such a clatter, they sprang from their recliners to see what was the matter. Away to the window they flew like a flash, tore open the blinds and threw up the sash. And what to their wondering eyes should appear, but Stephanie Plum and yet another of her cars burning front to rear.

There's been an accident. I had Mr. Loosey on the table, and I was gonna get him dressed, and then I had to go fix the thermostat, and when I got back to Mr. Loosey, I noticed he was missing his..um, private part. I don't know how this could happen. One minute it was there, and the next minute it was gone. -Louie Moon, mortician's assistant

Perfection was no protection. Disaster had a way of dropping by just when you least expected it.

TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.

When I was going to get ready to take 'Dietland' up, I have to say I was surprised to find that I felt like maybe we wouldn't find a home for it because it's unlike anything else that I've done.

Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.

A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?

As I began to perform - songs, poems, sketches or conjuring tricks - I began to learn what children run with and what they dont. I discovered that, quite often, an element of surprise or absurdity might be the key to unlocking laughter.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

For me, New York has always been a city of unpredictability. You can never guess what's going to happen next.

I basically like the unpredictability factor. When I watch a film, if it becomes predictable, I lose interest in it.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.