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Quotes About Surprise

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.
~ Twyla Tharp
Life's a roller coaster, and you never know when it's going to take a turn.
~ Ty Pennington
Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.
~ Tyler Perry
There's an intruder in my OoAh!
~ Tyra Banks
Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last
~ Unknown
A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.
~ Unknown
May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead.
~ Unknown
The king was pregnant.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
None of us knows all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
~ Vaclav Havel
If a writer knows everything that is going to happen, then his book is dead before he begins it.
~ V.S. Naipaul
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
~ Vaclav Havel
Mikääs tuolla reppujen alla pihisee. – Poikahan se siellä.
~ Unknown
Issues of the Fairmount News from the early 1920s are replete with accounts of surprise appearances by hooded Klan representatives at local church services
~ Unknown
Everything, that she was saying, now, everything that she saw and heard, took place in a deep numbness, in which all the senses are stilled and a person exists not in one's own life but with some emergency life that is stuck onto one. In such situations fear, pain, surprise and enlightenment come later, and until such time as one comes to one's senses, this sober, sturdy, and almost unfeeling mechanism takes over.
~ Unknown
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
~ Vanessa Carlton
Inspiration always arrives unannounced.
~ Vanna Bonta
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.
~ Vera Nazarian
What happens next leaves me speechless. "I still don't have a proper love gift for you yet, im amrevu," Aeson says, watching me with intensity. "However, I have this—" He reaches with his right hand to untie the black armband around his left sleeve. The black length of silk comes loose, and he folds it carefully into a square and hands it to me.
~ Vera Nazarian
What is it with you today?" says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. Oh, you know," I say. Sun shining. Birds chirping." She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
~ Veronica Roth
The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible.
~ Vicki Baum
I quickly found myself in the center of the room, trussed up to a sturdy, high-backed chair, which Joaquin happily assured me was an original Louis the Fourteenth. Oh goody. I'd hate to die bound to something from IKEA.
~ Unknown
Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
~ Victor Borge
Plans are what people make when Fate is sneaking up behind them,
~ Unknown
Prinn lived by one governing thought: Whenever life seems to be going surprisingly well, just wait ten seconds and everything will go back to shit like normal.
~ Unknown