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Quotes About Surprise

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.
~ Steven Wright
I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!
~ Noel Fielding
Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"
~ Mitch Hedberg
I do dark [humor]. I like people who are silly and weird and people who are surprising and good at what they do.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
~ David Lee Roth
I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.
~ Emo Philips
The secret to humor is surprise.
~ Aristotle
While I was gone, somebody rearranged on the furniture in my bedroom. They put it in exactly the same place it was. When I told my roommate, he said: "Do I know you?"
~ Steven Wright
I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.
~ Steven Wright
It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much."
~ Frank Carson
Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?
~ P.C. Cast
A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.
~ Steven Wright
So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything."
~ Tim Vine
You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.
~ Henny Youngman
Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.
~ Steve Allen
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
~ Terry Pratchett, Mort
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
~ Don Roff
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.
~ Tommy Cooper
Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait."
~ Steven Wright
Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.
~ Jeff Foxworthy