Quotes About Surprise

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.

smoke a cigar. Sophie had heard him come in and found him there. She was surprised he

The other girl was fifteen, and she was expecting

though she were another person, a deus ex machina

She smiled at him, touched by what he had said, and grateful for his friendship. He took her home that night, and walked her upstairs. He didn't ask to come in, and he never mentioned the world tour. But he surprised her by sending her flowers the next day

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

It appears your son was 85 percent curry!

A boy sees a girl topless for the first time only once, and the anticipation of the big reveal is really exciting. I feel like I'm a present being unwrapped.

You might be surprised," Bram said, picking up his pen again. "You'll answer my questions?" "Aye," Paris nodded, "but not tonight. I'm entertaining a friend. Remain a few nights and I will let you have your… how did you put it last time… your interview with a vampire.

I'll give you your Christmas present now if you'll give me mine. I shook my head. At breakfast. But it's Christmas now. Breakfast. Whatever you're giving me, she said, I hope I don't like it. You'll have to keep them anyway, because the man at the Aquarium said he positively wouldn't take them back. He said they'd already bitten the tails off the...

I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me. I probably didn't jump twenty feet.

Nora was eating a piece of cold duck with one hand and working on a jig-saw puzzle with the other when I got home. I thought you'd gone to live with her, she said. You used to be a detective: find me a brownish piece shaped something like a snail with a long neck. Piece of duck or puzzle?...

Asta jumped up and punched me in the belly with her front feet. Nora, at the other end of the leash, said: "She's had a swell afternoon—knocked over a table of toys at Lord & Taylor's, scared a fat woman silly by licking her leg in Saks's, and's been patted by three policemen.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.

Someone was tapping on the window.

maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

dropping spiders

You came to a strip club with a woman who is not your fiancée, and a gorilla on your wedding day.

Are the kids at school? No, they're in the lake. My God.

I often cannot believe the things I do.