That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.
~ Suzanne Collins
An assumption is the joke, truth the punchline.
~ Criss Jami
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
~ Mae West
I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.
~ Pittacus Lore
She was the sky full of surprises. Her dreams were blue and breathtaking as a bright day and her secrets were dark and poetic as a cold night. Either way, she was the most beautiful mess that one had ever come across.
~ Akshay Vasu
Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in her ear. Transferred the secret he and her mother had kept for seventeen years. Waited for the flicker of recognition, the minute shift in expression as she registered what he was telling her. Watched as the bottom fell out of her world and the person she had been vanished in an instant.
~ Kate Morton
With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.
~ Sol Luckman
The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to.
~ Steven Magee
Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle, its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.
~ Emma Cameron
You’re right. The fact that the entire party of fifty guests caught you and Jill Moench kissing in the closet was a complete misunderstanding. Theo snorted, turning to Penny, His girlfriend certainly got a surprise at her party. And it wasn’t the kind where everyone jumps out from behind the couch to yell, ‘Surprise!
~ Katlyn Charlesworth
Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
It's shocking the things we call love.
~ Deb Caletti
How quickly he fell, how soon it was over.
~ Donna Tartt
I rose swiftly and struck him across the cheek, hard enough to make my palm sting. He gaped at me. 'I do not want your damned money. I want you to answer me.' Carefully, he fingered his jaw. There was something new and strange in his gaze, sharp, intent enough to make me wary. 'I do believe I've forgotten the question.'
~ Aislinn Kerry
It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.
~ Steven J. Carroll
Elizabeth: Maybe he'll surprise you.Meghann: Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.
~ Kristin Hannah
I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
~ Markus Zusak
Humans were always surprising me.
~ Stephenie Meyer
When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.
~ Michael R. French
Surprise was not when i thanked my parents. Surprise came when they said, What for?
~ Faisal Khosa
The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.
~ Justin Swapp
Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.
~ Tierney Gearon
Dream big, I dreamt of being taller when I was a kid, reinforced with flashbacks everyday I exercised diligently and to my surprise, I am still 5 feet tall.
~ Pushpa Rana
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
~ Samuel Johnson
These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad business sense.
~ T.c. Boyle
There can never be surprises in logic.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.
~ Garth Nix
That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.
~ Alexander Mccall Smith
Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.
~ Margaret Atwood
If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.
~ John Dufresne
When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.
~ Max Lucado
Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
~ Frank Herbert
Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.
~ Pawan Mishra
