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Quotes About Surprise

When existential depression attacks without warning, your father dyes his hair.
~ Yasmina Reza
But as midnight inevitably came and went without the horsemen of the apocalypse making an appearance, Clara surprised herself by falling into a melancholy. For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt—something is gained but something is lost.
~ Zadie Smith
Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence.
~ Zeruya Shalev
To?i cei care gre?esc ?tiu din capul locului c? sunt pe cale s? fac? o gre?eal?, dar nu se pot ab?ine. Probabil c? surpriza e dat? doar de amploarea gre?elii. - RO (Trad. Ioana Petridean) Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence. - EN
~ Zeruya Shalev
Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me.how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much 'bout us as you think yo do. It's so easy to make yo'self out God Almighty when you ain't got nothin' tuh strain against but women and chickens.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much 'bout us as you think you do. It's so easy to make yo'self out God Almighty when you ain't got nothin' tuh strain against but women and chickens.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Joe was not there waiting for her, the change
~ Zora Neale Hurston
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
~ Howard Nemerov
I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
~ Kapil Sibal
I am an accidental actor.
~ Saqib Saleem
The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun.
~ Robert Lepage
I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
~ Ray Stevenson
Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?
~ Spike Jonze
I didn't know Alan Pardew before football at all.
~ Mike Ashley
I think if aliens came to Earth, we would laugh. If there was an alien technology, we would laugh.
~ Zal Batmanglij
I would have never thought that I'd be an All-Star in this league, so to finally have my name called, it's really cool.
~ Kemba Walker
Sometimes I amaze even myself.
~ Erich Segal
People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.
~ Sigourney Weaver
Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
~ Kate O'Brien
I'm just meeting amazing people. I'll go into a meeting with Ant and Dec and just be like, 'This is my life?'
~ Scarlett Moffatt
I don't think anyone who I went to school with would have necessarily have been like, Oh, he's going to be an actor one day.' I am just as surprised as anyone else.
~ Nicholas Galitzine
Anytime you kind of take the road that I've taken, people don't know what to expect.
~ Jason Witten
I never thought I could sing, but apparently I can.
~ Princess Stephanie of Monaco
I want to be in a space where, if I appear on the stage or the screen, the audience should not know what I'm going to do.
~ Pratik Gandhi