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Quotes About Surprise

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.
~ Adam Nevill
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
~ Barbara Mertz
Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.
~ Barry Lyga
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
~ Bernard Malamud
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
~ Charlotte Bronte
You can't surprise a man with a dog.
~ Cindy Chupack
Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.
~ Diana Rowland
A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.
~ Don Herold
... you simply can't imagine what men will say!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.
~ Gail Carriger
The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.
~ Garth Stein
Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.
~ Gary Lawyer
Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.
~ George R. R. Martin
There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.
~ Mark Millar
I thought you were going to break out into the running man, Carlton?
~ Matt Striker
This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.
~ Nat Hentoff
The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?
~ Nora Roberts
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
~ Raymond Chandler
I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason. Good God. Men everywhere.
~ Richelle Mead
It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
~ Robert E. Howard
Man plans. God laughs.
~ Harlan Coben
I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.
~ Howard Dietz