I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.
And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. “Don’t do that,” I say. “What? Come up or stay under?” he says. “Either. Neither. Whatever
'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
I think it is OK to surprise people.
"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
Everything is surprising, rightly seen.
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
It is a world of startling possibilities.
Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?
All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.
When something actually shocks me, that's when you know it's a great topic.
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.
The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it's a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.
You just said you were sorry." ... "I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-
I want people to be surprised.
I don't like sneaking up on people.
