322 Quotes About Surprise

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" in not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.

The human mind is genetically attuned to pick out points of affinity within the complex stream of sensory information reaching the brain, because pattern equals redundancy. A pattern is a way of ‘chunking’ an array of information so that it takes up less attentional space. […] The more the mind can store information in this way, the more free capacity it has available to cope with novelty and surprise.

The element of surprise is proven to intensify emotional experiences and boost the recall of these experiences.

She looked at me with those yellow-green eyes and gave me a very low, almost muted growl and flashed just enough of her teeth to let me know this was not a “pet”.It’s a mistake (and sometimes a fatal one) to ignore what you know is just under the surface.

I was startled when a knock came at door and instead of a servant- in walked a hallucination, or apparition or miracle- I couldn't decide which.

You can give a surprise to someone you want to give but be aware of that maybe you become surprise yourself with your surprise instead of someone.

You will never be surprised if you keep catching the easy fish.

Greenwood wasn’t happy to see me. And I saw a look on her face, one I’d never seen there before. I think it was surprise, but we might need a new name for it, just because it was hers.

Bon ! cria-t-elle, j'avais déjà oublié que vous étiez là, vous !Vous pourriez bien tousser avant de parler.Vous avez une voix qui part brusquement comme celle d'un mort.