Quotes About Surprise

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't.

She is like a monkey virus and will infect you and bleed you dry after you've given her too much personal information, and no reaction, word or deed from Courtney Love should surprise anyone.

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

During my training, a supervisor once told me, "There's something likable in everyone," and to my great surprise, I found that she was right.

Cast your hook in the stream where you least expect to get a bite; if you hook a fish, then you'll know you're truly lucky. —Dutch Callahan

Hey, watch what I can do with a cherry stem." She finished the revolution, fished a maraschino cherry from her cherry martini, and popped it into her mouth. Her jaw worked for a quick minute, and then she proudly stuck out her tongue to show him the woody cherry stem tied into a neat knot. "Ta-da.

The cart jerked, the wheels catching on something. Jodi pitched forward, felt the cart leave the sidewalk, tilt, tip. Momentum shot her from the downed cart. Her plan was to somersault forward, plant her feet, stand up. Ta-da. Unhurt. Unfazed. Except it didn't turn out that way.

Dear Lord, had he seen her cheetah-print panties?

He took hold of her chin with a thumb and forefinger. "Hold still. It will be over in a sec." "That's what she said," Kasha deadpanned. Chuckling, Axel shook his head. "You look all serious and quiet and then you drop these little humor bombs so unexpected that they sail over most people's heads.

Jake?" "Mmm?" "I like it when you spend the day thinking." He brought his head up, twinkling eyes and a mischie­vous grin gracing his countenance. "Reb, honey, that was just what I thought about this morning. Wait until I show you what I thought about this afternoon.

Yes, well, I'm not at all surprised by that revelation, but you see I'm making love to her and that requires a certain finesse, which I doubt your father has the wherewithal to possess.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

Louie in his early eighties. "I think my skateboarding shakes up a few people. Some stop their cars to be sure their eyes aren't deceiving them.

Once a thing is forgotten, it's forgotten until next time. Then you find to your surprise that a lot of things you thought were essential aren't essential at all. It's very enlightening.

Bearings You are my dear compass, who knows no way but true, so when I'm lost and drifting, I find myself in you. Yet when I ask you, fearful, if I should set you free, imagine my surprise to hear you take your north from me.

Three Pines wasn't on any tourist map, being too far off any main or even secondary road. Like Narnia, it was generally found unexpectedly and with a degree of surprise that such an elderly village should have been hiding in this valley all along. Anyone fortunate enough to find it once usually found their way back.

Things sometimes fell apart unexpectedly. It was not necessarily a reflection of how much they were valued.

Jeez," said Beauvoir. "The Inquisition. I didn't expect that." "No one does," said Gamache.

Four days. And she had two gay sons, a large black mother, a demented poet for a friend and was considering getting a duck. It was not what she'd expected from this visit.

Everyone in the farmyard was staring at Gamache with open astonishment, including the donkeys. But human behavior often astonished them.