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Quotes About Surprise

No vaya a ser que la sorpresa arranque de su corazón el espíritu animal de la vida y termine con él. Pues las alegrías repentinas, como las penas, confunden al principio
~ Daniel Defoe
And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.
~ Daniel Handler
Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.
~ Daniel Handler
You were all I wanted, the best gift. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.
~ Daniel Handler
There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back, this thing you gave me as the star we were waiting for finally emerged.
~ Daniel Handler
Ni siquiera lo había estado buscando, no a ti, y ahora eras lo que mi corazón deseaba.
~ Daniel Handler
She didn't look like a girl who would ruin the whole thing at all.
~ Daniel Handler
I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you.
~ Daniel Handler
Relax, she said. You will be wise. You're young. You can't have everything right away. When something simple and true takes you by surprise, it hits you in the stomach.
~ Daniel Handler
No lo sabes…? Pero acabas… acabas de gastarte cincuenta y cinco dólares en este libro. —Lo sé —respondiste—. No pasa nada. —Pero ¿no sabes por qué? —Para hacerte feliz —fue lo único que dijiste, y de repente, Ed, tus palabras me dejaron sin respiración.
~ Daniel Handler
I reached out for something else and found it: the red croquet mallet, just occurring there on the ground like some easy device, some plot element stashed there for the big finale.
~ Daniel Handler
I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you and that's why we broke up.- Min, Why We Broke Up
~ Daniel Handler
Lo que sucede con los deseos del corazón es que tu corazón ni siquiera sabe lo que desea hasta que lo tiene enfrente.
~ Daniel Handler
Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Door's open!" she shouted. She was in her underwear, lying on the floor, arms outstretched and legs up against the couch. She tilted her head back and looked at me upside down. "Charlie, darling! Why are you standing on your head?
~ Daniel Keyes
Boy if I get smart wont he be serprised.
~ Daniel Keyes
For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along. "Ah
~ Daniel Wallace
It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.
~ Daniel Woodrell
The year 2008 was the moment when the bell rang. That year, U.S. natural gas output went up instead of down, as had been the general expectation. That abruptly caught the attention of the majors, the big international companies.
~ Daniel Yergin
I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.
~ John Cusack
You're the best thing I never knew I needed.
~ The Princess and the Frog
I gave my father $100 and said, "Buy yourself something that will make your life easier." So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
~ Rita Rudner
"Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do somethin' like this — and totally redeem yourself! Ha Ha!"
~ Dumb & Dumber (1994)
Ow! My eye! I didn't know where my hand was going. I thought it wanted to rest behind my head but it wanted to poke me in the eye!
~ Gabriel, age 4