What A Pleasant Surprise Quotes

#1. In a desperate bid to reestablish civilized talk and decorum, Miss Hisselpenny said, quite loudly, I see they are bringing in the fish course. What a pleasant surprise. I do so love fish. Don't you Mr., uh, Dubh. It is so very, um, salty.

Gail Carriger

#2. Mr. Darcy," he said. "Mrs. Darcy what a pleasant surprise this is," the older man said as he came up to them. "Mr.

Mary Jane Ballew

#3. When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

Susan Sarandon

#4. More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

Keith Morris

#5. What's up, Tommy?" Newt exclaimed, his face filled with genuine happiness at the pleasant surprise that'd been sprung on them. Thomas couldn't remember exactly how long it'd been since the last time he'd seen Newt. "You look bloody fantastic for three in the morning.

James Dashner

#6. Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

Sophie Thompson

#7. If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?" Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice.
"Wouldn't surprise me," Heath said.

Kristin Cast

#8. Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

Aristotle.

#10. Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

Orson Scott Card

#11. One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

Gilbert Gottfried

#12. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Oscar Wilde

#13. For it is written that if the wise man appears always stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

Christopher Moore

#14. You saved us in the nick of time."
"Have I saved you?" asked the Hemulen in surprise. "I didn't mean to. I was looking for the caterpillars that were making such a noise down there." (Hemulens are generally a bit slow in grasping an idea, but they are very pleasant if you don't annoy them.)

Tove Jansson

#15. It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

George Santayana

#16. It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Anthony Hopkins

#17. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

Paulo Coelho

#18. If you start out depressed, everything is sort of a pleasant surprise.

Say Anything

#19. Two steps to accept the pleasant: surprise & satisfaction.

Four steps to accept the unpleasant: denial, anger, sadness & submission.

Self

#20. The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

#21. Actually, yes, I would say something like 'there may be bears here.' Bears are not a pleasant surprise for most people.

Seanan McGuire

#22. What kind of meal would you like?"
"Something edible would be a pleasant surprise.

Michael J. Sullivan

#23. I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.

Genie Francis

#25. Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Marcus Aurelius

#26. A very pleasant surprise was that items I thought were naughty but that I enjoyed immensely, like strong coffee, dark chocolate, nuts, high fat yoghurt, wine and cheese, are actually likely to be healthy for me and my microbes.

Tim Spector

#27. Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick"
-Pippin Took

J.R.R. Tolkien

#28. Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.

Josh Stewart

#29. The most pleasant surprise is to get lost in the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise.

Dee Dee Artner