Linda Grant Quotes

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

There were a lot of times I'd hide in my locker and jump out and surprise people. Whenever friends would come by, I'd open the locker and hit' em.

The biggest message I want to get out is that a lot of us live in a bubble, and we think things can't happen to us, but they do. When it does happen to you, take care of yourself, and then get up.

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.

We're defenseless, I know we play defense, but we're defenseless when we're not looking at the guy who's blocking us or when the guy's come out and cut out our knees from underneath us.

I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.

Once I found out that I had officially been entered in the Royal Rumble, I took some time to myself to sit down and try to comprehend what was going to take place later that night. I couldn't.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming.

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.

A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.