Quotes About Surprise

Just because a thing is funny doesn't mean it doesn't have a mystery.

The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find.

My doctor, who happens to be my old college roommate, tells me the Parkinson's shouldn't affect my golf game at all, which really surprised me. His explanation was very interesting. He said I've never been able to putt and since it was impossible for my putting to get any worse, there was actually a chance it might improve.

A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it's not the only factor. But it is something we humans celebrate in ourselves and regard as key to the flowering of human intelligence. So it's easy to imagine scientists' eyebrows arching in surprise when dolphins—and not chimpanzees—were discovered in the 1950s and 1960s to have a brain nearly as large as our own on this scale.

Would you look at you two? What's the special occa-ouch!

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise.

But even as he put his scaly arms out to take the baby, another scaly arm pulled back one of the tapestries, and out stepped—of all trolls—his own brother.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Even shit going plash sometimes makes a splash.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Sometimes that happens to us, way before we're ready, a moment that changes everything. Life will be going along, like normal, and then one day without warning you find out that nothing will ever be the same.

The twist in his lower back that was aggravated by lifting objects, or sneezing, or moving, or not moving. No one had ever told him that growing old would hurt so much.

I'd been outsmarted by a man who named his goose Doris and thought it was a duck.

Then something incredible happened. The boy picked me up and carried me right into the house! I'd never even imagined that might be possible. Did it mean that I wouldn't be living in a wire cage with a concrete floor? That I could stay where the people stayed? I was going to like it here just fine.

I left out the part about being beaten up by a twenty-pound goose.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Horror lets us know that how we expected the world to act has been indefinitely cancelled.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

But once in a while the odd thing happens, Once in a while the dream comes true, And the whole pattern of life is altered, Once in a while the moon turns blue.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

A critter reveals his true self at midnight.

He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.