Quotes About Surprise

Here I am, just turned fifty, and I forgot that my father isn't dead yet!

I had that in my mouth ten minutes ago and now it's a private part?

Were it not for Sorry! I'd never have known that Kathy's mother shot a kitten in the head.

June 3, 1987 Chicago This afternoon I found a $50 bill in the foyer of the building near the mailboxes. It was folded thin and full of cocaine. Some of it spilled when I opened it up, but there's still plenty left. So that's $50 in cash and around $80 worth of cocaine—$130! If I find $50 every day, I won't need to get a job.

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!" On

Given all the time I've spent in the country, you'd think I might have seen a calf being born, but this was a first for me. The biggest surprise was how nonplussed the expectant mother was. For a while she lay flat on the grass, panting. Then she got up and began grazing, still with those feet sticking out. "Really?" I said to her. "You can't go five minutes without eating?

What's the worst thing you can hear while you're blowing Willie Nelson? "I'm not really Willie Nelson.

Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.' A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed. They spook easy, Hobbs said. Yes, well, people tend to do that when you come up behind them shouting, Good God. It's just a habit, I guess.

Days later, I saw an X-ray of a Bose speaker inside someone. "And it was still connected to Bluetooth," the woman who showed it to me whispered.

I've finished answering the letters Alyssa gave me a few weeks back. One was from a woman who wrote that when deaf people get their hearing, they're always surprised that the sun makes no noise. They naturally assumed it would roar, though if it did, you'd think it might have been mentioned somewhere along the way, in songs at least. Maybe that's what they thought was meant by "I was awoken by the sun.

While I was gone Hugh, Manuela, and Dario attended Franck's surprise fortieth-birthday party. One of the guests was a sophisticated mother of three who announced that she hated the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes because it was cruel to keep the animals in such small cages. She went on and on and then, at the end of the evening, she unlocked her car and released her golden retriever, who'd spent the last six hours in the trunk.

London is five hours ahead of Washington, DC, except when it comes to gay marriage. In that case, it's two years and five hours ahead, which was news to me. "Really?" I said, on meeting two lesbian wives from Wolverhampton. "You can do that here?

Volite cijelim srcem, Budite iznena?eni, Zahvaljujte se i hvalite - Tad ?ete otkriti Ispunjenost svog života.

We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!

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The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Do you know you're bleeding? he asked. I had a suspicion. That looks nasty. My apologies. What happened to your forehead? A fork. A fork? Yes, sir. I wish I'd been eating with a spoon. You stabbed yourself with a fork? It flipped. Flipped? The fork. A flipped fork? It flicked my forehead. Pausing in the counting of my change, he gave me a narrow look. That's right, I said. A flipped fork flicked my forehead.

Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.

That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with wonder and surprise; sometimes the surprises were so amazing that they qualified as miraculous, and by witnessing those miracles, a despondent person could discover a reason to live, a cynic could obtain unexpected relief from ennui, and a profoundly wounded boy could find the will to heal himself and medicine for melancholy.

The cruelty of children comes as news to no one.