Quotes About Surprise

the bus was running late, but in truth this was no surprise. Delhi probably got its name from the word 'delay'.

Dr. Kellet himself wore a three-piece Harris tweed suit strung with a large gold fob watch. He smelled of cloves and pipe tobacco and had a twinkly look about him as if he were going to toast muffins or read a particularly good story to her, but instead he beamed at Ursula and said, So, I hear you tried to kill your maid? (Oh, that's why I'm here, Ursula thought.)

Good news?' Gloria queried. She wondered if Emily was pregnant again (was that good news?), so she was taken aback when Emily said, 'I've found Jesus.' 'Oh,' Gloria said. 'Where was he?

By the end of the war there was nothing about men and women that surprised him. Nothing about anything really. The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.

The plot thickens," he said, and wished he hadn't said that because it sounded like something from a bad detective novel. "I think we have a suspect." That didn't sound much better. "My house has just exploded, by the way." At least that was novel.

Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?

It just went to show, you never knew what you were going to feel until you felt it.

but it seemed so much worse somehow when he turned out to have golden curls like an angel and eyes the colour of forget-me-nots.

No one ever warned you about how ferocious mother love could be, let's face it, no one warned you about anything.

I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.

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

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

Naw, man, I like big, hard, throbbing co- (stunned pause) ...I did not know that about myself.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?