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Quotes About Surprise

If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?' Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice.
~ Unknown
Well, hell.
~ P.C. Cast
If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?
~ P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!" "I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.
~ Unknown
Belascoarán se llevó la mano a la bolsa y sacó una paleta de caramelo rellena de chicle. Lo mismo podía haber sacado su pistola, el tipo no le inspiraba la más mínima simpatía.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Maybe you ought to go, Charlie. CHARLIE No, they asked me. I told them I didn't want to go. HELEN It might do you good to have a night out. I know you're upset about the baby... CHARLIE I'm not upset... HELEN Come on, Charlie, I know how you feel. Listen, you don't have to pretend you're excited about having a baby. We weren't figuring on a kid right now, and it's a shock. Listen, I wasn't exactly overjoyed when I began to suspect I was pregnant.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.
~ Padgett Powell
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks — expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs — that can undermine any tale you're telling.
~ Pam Brown
Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind more securely." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST
~ Pam Grout
Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.
~ Pam Grout
The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.
~ Pam Jenoff
Unpredictability is the best part of life," he had said. "The surprise of who or what might be around the corner, it's what keeps us going.
~ Pam Jenoff
It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.
~ Pamela Anderson
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
~ Pamela Anderson
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
~ Pamela Anderson
Sophie hadn't tought an erect penis would be so big. Or so hard. Or so silky. "I thought it would be like a hot-dog.
~ Pamela Clare
Oh my stars!
~ Pamela Clare
He was, she realised, quite graceful. The very idea surprised her. Male grace was a quality she'd never thought of beyond the ballroom; either a man could dance a quadrille with skill and without stepping on her feet or he could not. But here was another kind of grace altogether--and untrained grace, an instinctive animal grace.
~ Pamela Clare
A horse's hindquarters appeared at the door, the horse backing slowly down a ramp. "Buckwheat!" Emily squealed. "You bringed my horsie!
~ Pamela Clare
Vic's jaw snapped shut. "You didn't tell me the men here were all so … hot." Lexi shrugged. "It's Colorado.
~ Pamela Clare
Seriously? A cowboy hat? Was he trying to slay her? What was next? Cuddling puppies against his shirtless chest?
~ Pamela Clare
Janet stared up at him, unable to believe her bad luck. She'd only met him once, but she'd recognize him anywhere—those dark blue eyes, that square jaw, the thick salt-and-pepper hair, the dark brows, the rugged cheekbones. Of all the fences along all the highways in the entire state of Colorado, she just had to crash into his.
~ Pamela Clare
I'm going to be a big sister," Emily said. "My daddy breeded my mommy, like Chinook with the mares." Megan coughed, choking on her tea. Jack looked over at Nate. "What the hell did you tell this child?" Nate shrugged. "It's not what we said. It's what she put together. She does live on a stud farm, you know." Janet fought not to laugh. "Congratulations! You must be so excited.
~ Pamela Clare