Surprise Event Quotes

You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants.

Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.

Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.'

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."

It was a wonderful experience working with Nagarjuna sir. I mean, I never expected this to happen. For me, who watched his films standing in a queue at theatres, and now sharing the screen with him is a huge thing.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.

It has happened a few times that I've found myself in a surprise mid-tour recording session.

Nobody heard anything ahead of time.

I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.