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Quotes About Surprise

I gotta go. The gingerbread men are on fire.
~ David Levithan
Two sixty-three. Noah tells me. ?!??? I reply.
~ David Levithan
As if that in some way made it better, that fate hadn't planned it weeks in advance.
~ David Levithan
Me asombra lo aleatorio, lo cómico y la fe que nos une a todos y nos hace seguir adelante.
~ David Levithan
Fate has a strange way of making plans,' I agreed.
~ David Levithan
Wierz?, ?e du?e zmiany w ?yciu przychodz? niezauwa?one; nie spodziewamy si? ich nawet na chwil? przed.
~ David Levithan
Quando te vi hoje, não sabia que estava te esperando até você aparecer. E então toda aquela espera tomou conta de mim em um segundo.
~ David Levithan
The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The audience therefore needs the second act to end with a question.
~ David Mamet
And perhaps the sun, in search of novelty, will rise in the west.
~ David Mamet
Watch tonight's episode. Someone might die.
~ David Morrell
A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.
~ David Rakoff
Weird doors open. People fall into things.
~ David Sedaris
I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet it still manages to amaze me. It's as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge saying, "Fuck this. I'm going to Los Angeles!
~ David Sedaris
I felt betrayed, the way you do when you discover that your cat has a secret secondary life and is being fed by neighbors who call him something stupid like Calypso. Worse is that he loves them as much as he loves you, which is to say not at all, really. The entire relationship has been your own invention.
~ David Sedaris
If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?
~ David Sedaris
Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat
~ David Sedaris
But at the end of every show we would realize that true happiness often lies where you very least expect it. It might arrive in a form of a gentle breeze or a handful of peanuts, but when it came, we would seize it with our own brand of folksy wisdom.
~ David Sedaris
Everyone had taken their places, when I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and there, in the toilet, was the absolute biggest turd I have ever seen in my life - no toilet paper or anything, just this long and coiled specimen, as thick as a burrito.
~ David Sedaris
Someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels. What made this exceptionally disturbing was that all our towels were fudge-colored. You'd be drying your hair when, too late, you noticed an unmistakable odor on your hands, head, and face.
~ David Sedaris
I felt betrayed, the way you do when you discover that your cat has a secret secondary life and is being fed by neighbors who call him something stupid like Calypso.
~ David Sedaris
Finally he was hit by a train while walking, which is strange because trains don't generally sneak up on people. For the most part, barring a derailment, you know exactly where to find them.
~ David Sedaris
It's as though we had asked to have ice cubes in our wine, like, Ick, who are you?
~ David Sedaris
Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared.
~ David Sedaris
A Dutch parent has a decidedly hairier story to relate, telling his children, "Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared.
~ David Sedaris