Quotes About Surprise

He'd take his time. All good things came to those who danced when others least expected to find anything on the head of a pin.

Ford! Sadie shouted sharply. His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class. It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!

Threw a spade and got a heart.

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

Toark woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.

Torak and Wolf looked at her in surprise, and she found herself facing two pairs of wolf eyes: one amber, one light-grey.

Hoe wist je dat ze eraan kwamen?' 'Dat wist ik niet, Wolf vertelde het me.' Ze keek verbaasd, en toen bang. 'Je kunt echt met hem praten, hé?

Tot zijn verbazing schoot Renn een pijl af, en even later plofte een sneeuwhoen op het mos neer. Toraks mond viel open. 'Hoe deed je dat?' Renn bloosde. 'Nou ja, ik oefen veel.' 'Maar... Ik heb nog nooit iemand zo goed zien schieten. Ben je de beste schutter van je stam?' Ze keek niet erg op haar gemak. 'Is er iemand die beter is?' 'Eh, niet echt.

I had lied so much lately that I was honestly surprised my pants weren't literally made of fire.

My eyes widened as I looked at him. 'Then you bit me, you weirdo.

Jerk? Is that the best you've got? How disappointing.

Well...unfortunately there's a little problem," he said. "What?" He pointed up. "That." I looked up to see the mistletoe dangling from the ceiling where I'd hung it three hours before. "Okay, but what does that-?" Rhys kissed me. "I really, really, didn't want to like that," he said. "Rhys-" But before I could say anything else, he kissed me again and pulled me closer.

Thought my eyes was playin' tricks on me when Twyla came sweeping through the building's revolving

life doesn't go by a formula.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

No fim, tu morres. No fim do livro, tu morres. Assim mesmo, como se morre nos romances: sem aviso, sem razão, a benefício apenas da história que se quis contar. Assim, tu morres e eu conto. E ficamos de contas saldadas.

Creative people are constantly surprised. They don't assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don't assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious—not out of contrariness but because they see the shortcomings of accepted explanations before the rest of us do. They sense problems before they are generally perceived and are able to define what they are.

Enjoyable events occur when a person has not only met some prior expectation or satisfied a need or a desire but also gone beyond what he or she has been programmed to do and achieved something unexpected, perhaps something even unimagined before.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

Anticipate the day as if it was your birthday and you are turning six again.

For the rest of the day Hubert couldn't stop grinning. He grinned in the lift on the way back down to the warehouse. He grinned as he passed Mr Coulthard yelling at the new lads. And he grinned all the more later when Kenneth told him a very odd story about being sent on a wild-goose chase to the fourth floor by a girl from Haberdashery.