Quotes tagged ‘surprise’

“Dude, it's amazing. Look at this. Bro, you could chop a camel right in the hump and drink all of its milk right off the tip of this thing.”

— Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Kelly, Charlie Day, imdb.com

“Woo! I'm so excited. An intervention? It's like having a surprise party for someone that's going to hate you.”

— David Caspe, Alex Kerkovich, Elisha Cuthbert, imdb.com

“Come on, flip the pickle, Morty. You're not gonna regret it. The payoff is huge. I turned myself into a pickle, Morty! Boom! Big reveal! I'm a pickle! What do you think about that? I turned myself into a pickle! W-what are you just staring at me for, bro? I turned myself into a pickle, Morty.”

— Jessica Gao, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“Many things can cause a loss of balance. One cause is danger, another is hardship, and another is surprise.”

— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com

“You win in battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by knowing the enemies' timing, and this using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”

— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com

“Surely the regime was not prepared for the moral catastrophe in store for it!”

— Fidel Castro, marxists.org

“Better to not know which moment may be your last.”

— Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, amazon.com

“We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves, to other people....The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we've done, or that's been done to us....Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise....Sometimes we think we can…”

— Mimi Schmir, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Some people say, ‘If you can't beat them, join them.’ I say, ‘If you can't beat them, beat them,’ because they will be expecting you to join them, so you will have the element of surprise.”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

““I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.”

— Wilfred Owen, amazon.com

“I finally realized my parents favored my twin brother.. It hit me when they asked me to blow up balloons for his surprise birthday party.”

— rumblefish65, reddit.com

“It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“When an ex tells you they’re HIV positive, It’s important to always act surprised.”

— ishouldntbehereatall, reddit.com

“If you want your ideas to be stickier, you've got to break someone's guessing machine and then fix it.”

— Chip Heath, amazon.com

“Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one.”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

“Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, cbsnews.com

“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”

— Anne Brontë, amazon.com

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yours…”

— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com

“Unexpected kiss. There’s the kind you didn’t see coming. It will leave you paralyzed as if every muscle in your body was controlled by your mouth alone. Your top lip quivers, activating a shut-down sequence your brain is powerless to stop. As their taste tattoos one single lasting memory you slowly…”

— Danielle Campoamor, thoughtcatalog.com

“The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”

— Dean Koontz, amazon.com