Quotes About Surprise

I never expected to live this long.

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.

Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.

I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that.

Sometimes, things just fall into your lap. You look back and try to figure out how it all happened and you never know.

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I remember seeing the first LEGO movie, almost skeptically. People were like, 'You should really see it!' And I was like, 'A LEGO movie?' And then, I was like, 'This is really good!'

Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs.

I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!

The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do think that life works that way. When you kind of let go of something and accept that it hasn't worked, it takes all the pressure off, and then you end up getting it.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

My lifestyle is probably not quite what people would expect it to be.

I didn't think that BTS would be in such limelight.

We just want people to feel something that they've never felt before. Or at least, something they haven't felt since they were little kids.

I didn't know what 'Every Little Thing' was going to do.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

I've surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.

It's a little counterintuitive to people, that doing what people don't expect ends up being what people do expect. But that is true of Mac.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.