Quotes About Surprise

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

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

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

Well, it would have to be "The Man Who Was Thursday." It's a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.

You never know when the best day of your life is going to be.

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

The day will always have some bit of weirdness in it like a piece of fruit with one bad spot. Spit it out as fast as u can and eat the rest!

What you want may not come in the form you expected. It may be right under your nose at this moment.

Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen.

Being positive reckons the unexpected.

I love people who choose to surprise the sad ones, Just to make them smile!