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Quotes About Surprise

This ain't no Bigfoot. It's the Bighead! The Bighead is back!
~ Edward Lee
An unexpected guest, enjoying such lavish hospitality, should expect to sing for his supper.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
El amor podía llegar de repente, sin presentirlo, del sitio más inesperado, y quedarse un tiempo antes de alejarse hacia un lugar inalcanzable.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Earl, who seemed to be in an almost perpetual state of amazement at the things he said, shook his head again.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
If you've never studied German before or think you know nothing about it, you might be in for a little surprise. You already know many German words .And you have the advantage of being an English speaker,which means that your knowledge of that language will be a helpful tool for learning German efficiently and comfortably.
~ Edward Swick
You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.
~ Edwidge Danticat
The only nugget of unimpeachable wisdom I have been able to glean from my lifetime of intensive dog study can be summed up on this one grim axiom: "Anything can happen!
~ Albert Payson Terhune
As Lad passed in through the doorway, he halted involuntarily in dismay. Dogs—dogs—DOGS! More than two thousand of them, from Great Dane to toy terrier, benched in row after row throughout the vast floor space of the Garden! Lad had never known there were so many dogs on earth.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Eres un pesimista», recuerdo que me dijo una vez, a lo que yo le respondí que sí, que lo era, pero que eso era una ventaja. -¿Por qué? -me dijo. - Porque siempre espero lo peor. Así, cada vez que no ocurre, me sorprendo. Quedo feliz. Y cuando ocurre, porque de que ocurre, ocurre, no me deprimo ni me decepciono. Es lo acostumbrado. Es lo normal. Es como es. Pero no necesariamente como deber ser.
~ Alberto Fuguet
A Poem About Miracles Why don't the records go blank the instant the singer dies? Oh, I know there are explanations, but they don't convince me. I'm still surprised when I hear the dead singing. As for orchestras, I expect the instruments to fall silent one by one as the musicians succumb to cancer and heart disease so that toward the end I turn on a disc labelled Gotterdammerung and all that comes out is the sound of one sick old man scraping a shaky bow across an out-of-tune fiddle.
~ Alden Nowlan
What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
~ Aldo Leopold
No le pida nunca nada a la vida. Espere... y algún día la vida le dará una sorpresa maravillosa.
~ Alejandro Casona
Ives Castagnino, el músico de Palermo, se encontró una vez con una dama desconocida que le había enviado cartas durante años. Cuando la vio en la esquina, se acercó y le dijo: -Buenas noches. Soy el desengaño.
~ Alejandro Dolina
Albowiem niebo rozpala p?omie? mi?o?ci, a nie my?l i pragnienie cz?owieka. ?ebraczka mo?e rozkocha? si? w królu, a córka królewska w kominiarzu. Duch mi?o?ci kr??y ró?nymi drogami i nigdy nie wiesz, sk?d przyjdzie i dok?d uleci.
~ Aleksis Kivi
In the blink of an eye everything was upside down: gentlemen, bakers, customers, bread loaves, counter, benches, bins, cupboards, sacks, threshers, wheat bran, flour, dough." "What about the musketeers?" "They were busy guarding the Commissioner's house. You can't both sing in the choir and carry the cross.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
no one is ever ready for anything
~ Alethea Kontis
In a small, excited voice she said, "Adventure awaits.
~ Alethea Kontis
We will apply a military technique known as ambush. It is a military technique in which combatants take advantage of surprise and concealment to attack unsuspecting enemy from hidden location." Master Kung said with a smile.
~ Alex Anderson
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
~ Alex Flinn
An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbee games. I was surprised that people weren't taking more notice of us. Everyone looked so strange to me that I couldn't believe I didn't look equally strange to them.
~ Alex Garland
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
~ Alex Winter
What if the novel in you is one you yourself would never read? A beach novel, a blockbuster, a long, windy, character-driven literary drama that ends sadly? What if the one novel in you is the opposite of your idea of yourself?
~ Alexander Chee
51. What if the novel in you is one you yourself would never read? A beach novel, a blockbuster, a long, windy, character-driven literary drama that ends sadly? What if the one novel in you is the opposite of your idea of yourself?
~ Alexander Chee
she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.
~ Alexander Chee