Quotes About Surprise

I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me.

I lost a lot. It was almost like I was a retired player where I lost all of my athleticism. I lost everything. Being able to get it back, step by step, little bit at a time, it was like surprising myself.

Innovation, surprising people and creating a sense of wonder is what consumers want.

Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting.

I want to do something very surprising next. I don't know what that is - something that has a high degree of risk.

Mesut is a player that always keeps giving his best and is always surprising everyone and he's a player that we're very grateful and very lucky to have.

Every night is not going to be your night, I understand that. But I learned how to impact the game other ways and I think my defense, my playmaking ability is surprising a lot of people.

I've run a marathon - I think that's the most surprising thing about me.

We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

It's been great; the whole experience was surreal to me. To go from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men' was like a dream. I could never have thought when I left 'EastEnders' that I would get this good a gig and so soon.

Well, we can't send Dr. Tresselt back by himself," said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. "I might find something interesting along the way, and

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

It's seldom anything turns out to be better than you expected it to be. Usually it's the other way around.

Then she laughed. It was almost a racking laugh. It shook her as the wind shakes a tree. I thought there was puzzlement in it, not exactly surprise, but as if a new idea had been added to something already known and it didn't fit. Then I thought that was too much to get out of a laugh.

He reached for the card without excitement, read it, turned it over and read the back with as much care as the front. There was nothing on the back to read.

mat. A case of false teeth hung on the mustard-colored wall like a fuse box in a screen porch.

Why, I'll be a monkey's uncle. I'll be a snake's daddy. I'll be a mickey finn at a woman's-club lunch.

Life is what happens, Magnus, no matter what you expect or want.

No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.

If any god helps me, I'll welcome it, but I'd also be surprised.

dirk, stunning the man. Borric shoved the third bruiser hard into a fat merchant

And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)