Quotes About Surprise

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS SENT me a strip-o-gram for my birthday. The editors crowded into my office to cheer on the uncomfortable moment. I was thirty-six and by any measure an adult, with a wife, a career, and responsibilities

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

Don't anyone move. . . I think we've driven into a mimefield.

For my father John Standish Fforde 1920-2000 Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless--and not a little surprised.

a curious sense of uncomfortable familiarity, the feeling you might get when a long-forgotten school bully hails you as an old friend.

She] used to...insist that puddings at St Granata's be randomly laced with curry powder to 'better prepare us for life's inevitable disappointments.

I watched her leave, smiling to myself. I thought I knew my mother but I didn't. Children rarely know their parents at all.

que en algún momento me despertaré y estaré en la lona del ring, asesinado por un oriental muy gordo que sonríe igual que la muerte.

Porque uno nunca encuentra lo que busca, sino lo que la realidad le entrega

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

You are the kind of guy who always hopes for a miracle at the last minute.

Irene threw her arms about him and kissed him. Then she grinned and said, "Why, Danny Dunn! The water's almost light enough for me to see you blush.

Two months later Joel loped down the stairs to the third floor and strode along the hall to the conference room. He walked through the door and stopped short at the sight of Letty held high in the arms of a huge blond Adonis.

You're not quite what I had in mind," she said. "What?" "I was thinking of getting a cat.

I can't begin to imagine the shock of having a body fall out of the fireplace. And your aunt's fireplace, at that. She was a vegan, for heaven's sake. She killed him, Mom. She didn't eat him.

There was a saying about dust bunnies: by the time you see the teeth, it's too late.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?