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Quotes About Surprise

God truly had a better plan for me than I had imagined. You never know what life has in store.
~ Phyllis Smith
The second one is more about Dopinder working with Deadpool and being like 'I am ready for more stuff.' He is more into work and career stuff than love. But it's really fun. The storyline, where it goes, everyone will be surprised. I even get a catchphrase.
~ Karan Soni
My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.
~ Chris Claremont
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
~ Ian McDiarmid
Part of George R.R. Martin's brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
~ Harry Lloyd
Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.
~ Jerry Lewis
When I was working on the first 'Dark Souls' - as far back as 'Demon's Souls,' actually - I didn't expect the player community to come up with speedrun contests or any of the strange new ways to play the games.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
This is a strange game.
~ Carl Yastrzemski
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
~ Maynard James Keenan
I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
~ T Bone Burnett
I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'
~ Delta Goodrem
It's a strange thing when someone passes away. It's always when you're not expecting it that you're affected by it. When we first started filming, we were filming with existing characters in a location that we'd never been before.
~ Greg Davies
Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.
~ Rodney Crowell
With 'Stranger Things' especially, I couldn't expect the show to become what it was, and I definitely didn't expect the whole Barb thing to become what it was.
~ Shannon Purser
There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movie could have worked just as well if we didn't see it, in my opinion.
~ Mike Flanagan
Indeed, we had caused some surprise by having a child not only while renting, but while renting in precarious circumstances, in furnished property, and without the proper contract and strict rent control enjoyed by most tenants.
~ Tim Parks
With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.
~ Tim Parks
Brugha argued against ambushes, preferring what Deasy termed 'straight fights'. He wanted the ambushers to call on the Auxiliaries or Tans to surrender before fire was opened. The Cork OCs pointed out that if they did this they would be robbed of their principal weapon, surprise, which they badly needed against a numerically superior and more heavily armed enemy.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Sweet dreams." Elena gave her a blank look. "That seems very unlikely.
~ Tim Pratt
The Furies?" Zara said. "The Erinyes? The terrible ones?" At Nikki's look of surprise, Zara rolled her eyes. "I'm an actress, woman, remember? I've read the classics. Christ, I'm starring in motherfucking Medea, in case you hadn't noticed." "Oedipus was the mother-fucking one," the disheveled old lady said, sounding pleased with herself. "Not Medea.
~ Tim Pratt
If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.
~ Tim S. Grover
I've never seen her laugh like this before. It's a sight to behold, a wonder, like the Eiffel Tower or the World's Largest Prairie Dog.
~ Tim Tharp
Black beauty - he's a dark horse.
~ Tim Vine
Let's get out of here before–" A gigantic reptilian head rose up before us, fiery green water trickling down its black-scaled hide.
~ Tim Waggoner