Quotes About Surprise

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.

There are a lot of things that American fans don't know about me yet! I would say they don't know me at all, but I guess that's great because now I have the chance to surprise them and make friends.

I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh? (Sparhawk)

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

...So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift."

Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find 'em on my doorstep, and it's like Christmas. I get excited.

My sister-in-law found a real surprise in her stockings - my brother.

I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas.

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.