Top 100 Quotes About The Unexpected
#1. The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
Robert Doisneau
#2. Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft.
Ed Catmull
#3. Charm is a product of the unexpected.
Jose Marti
#4. Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded to spend the money wildly and borrow even more extravagantly on public works and other uneconomic forms of 'investment.'
Murray Rothbard
#5. Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.
George E.P. Box
#6. She throws her jeans at me and dives into the pellucid lake, slicing through the water almost without a splash. A church bell rings out in the distance, echoing in the quiet aftermath of Everly's quick jump into the unexpected.
Rebecca Paula
#7. Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway ...
Christopher Paolini
#8. What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.
John McCain
#9. You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
Neil Armstrong
#10. Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected ... you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.
Pierre Omidyar
#12. Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.
Wayne Shorter
#13. I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before ... I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#14. There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.
Emily Giffin
#15. There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.
John Bellairs
#16. Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
E. Stanley Jones
#17. The Unexpected Gift
Torn asunder from her slumber
in the hour of half past three
The child knew the tyrannical regime
and followed instinctively.
-(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)
Muse
#18. I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life ... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.
Willy Ronis
#19. To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control ...
T. S. Eliot
#20. The Creator of all men and all things has provided the challenge of change, the necessity for acceptance, and variations of all patterns. We live by change, by struggle and the unexpected; for only in change, struggle, and the unexpected can we achieve growth.
Faith Baldwin
#21. One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#22. Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
Jane Hirshfield
#23. the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
Julia Quinn
#24. Tis the unexpected that makes life interesting.
Ashlyn Chase
#25. We naturally take in the catastrophes of our friends a pleasure which genuinely does not preclude friendship. This is partly but not entirely because we enjoy being empowered as helpers. The unexpected or inappropriate catastrophe is especially piquant.
Iris Murdoch
#26. The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.
Gloria Steinem
#27. It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.
Alexey Brodovitch
#28. Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.
Leonard Nimoy
#29. In his recent book Unexplainable, he said, "[God] wants to do the inconceivable, the uncommon, the unexpected, the remarkable, the incomprehensible, so that He - God - is the only explanation for what occurs in our lives."3
James MacDonald
#32. A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.
Jim Cramer
#33. I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.
Seth Gordon
#34. Experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#35. We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.
Elizabeth George
#37. As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.
Rebecca Solnit
#38. Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far?
Francesca Battistelli
#40. This was unintentional."
It became something more without noticing. Without realizing. "Am I a mistake - "
"No, myshka. You're just the unexpected, beautiful thing in my life.
Krista Ritchie
#41. If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#42. We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.
Leigh Bardugo
#43. Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.
Adam Gopnik
#44. Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.
Gary Busey
#45. What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.
Martine Franck
#46. Being positive reckons the unexpected.
Toba Beta
#47. You'll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar.
Ed Catmull
#49. But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
Carre Otis
#50. Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.
Paul Auster
#51. [The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
Hugh L. Dryden
#52. I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.
Catherine Taylor
#53. Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end wit the promise of adventures yet to comestoriai
Wayne Thomas Batson
#54. It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
Freya Stark
#55. The one bit of color on the woman's body was the bright yellow of the stilettos peeking out from her sensible trousers.
Fuck me shoes. Damn. Any woman who wore those shoes had a streak of the unexpected. He wondered what her underwear looked like. Something delicate and lovely?
Lexi Blake
#56. This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
#57. Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Julius Caesar
#58. There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation.
Mitch Albom
#59. It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
David Canary
#60. Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!
Mini Grey
#61. The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.
Shannon L. Alder
#62. And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.
Rose Tremain
#63. Hope for the best, plan for the worst, but also try to be prepared for the unexpected.
Radovan Kavicky
#64. Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.
Chris Van Allsburg
#65. It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.
Michael Malone
#66. When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Serendipity happens when a well-trained mind looking for one things encounters something else: the unexpected.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#67. Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
Chuck Jones
#68. Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.
Horace Walpole
#69. Filmmaking is, a sort of uncontrolled process. I think it's very important to be open to the unexpected and at the same time, of course, maintain your vision, be open to the all the things you didn't think of yourself that can make the film better.
Dagur Kari
#70. It is the unexpected note that makes the poem. You, Hugh, are the unexpected note. (pg 554)
Helen Simonson
#71. The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
Heraclitus
#72. To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.
Pierre Omidyar
#73. Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
Brad Bird
#74. The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
Fanny Fern
#75. The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.
Jane Heller
#76. Meaning no disrespect, sir, but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected.
Dan Simmons
#77. That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#78. Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.
Marjorie M. Liu
#79. Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.
Paul Auster
#80. Don't expect too much from me, cos i might not meet up to your expectations, don't underestimate me, cos i just might do the unexpected, don't expect the truth from me always cos am human, and don't even try to judge me, cos you have not gone trough half of what av been trough
Odeyale Opeyemi
#81. I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.
Terry Tempest Williams
#83. No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
Wayne Shorter
#84. I think my mother ... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
Caroline Kennedy
#85. What I can't understand is why the silly things you say makes so much sense."
"I'll tell you why," said Papa Dima. "It's because the best idea is the idea you least expect. And the unexpected always seems silly at first.
Eduard Uspensky
#86. You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live.
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
#87. Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.
Ruskin Bond
#88. A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
Mark Twain
#89. What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.
Shaun White
#90. Too often we presume that the unexpected strangers in our lives bode ill,or we are skeptical of their designs.We think we know more.
And while I am well aware that there is indeed all manner of malevolence in the ether,there is benevolence there,too
Chris Bohjalian
#92. It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.
Anna Quindlen
#93. A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.
Martine Franck
#95. Pleasure to me is wonder - the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
H.P. Lovecraft
#96. I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#97. That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was inevitable that he should, but his manner of doing it. Even at this distance of time, the remembrance agonises me. There
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#98. The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#99. Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!
Randy Savage
#100. We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.
John Wooden
