Quotes About Unexpected Encounters

#1. I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Charles Kuralt

#2. Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one. Unexpected encounters with dog shit, definitely.

Deb Caletti

#3. I've been very active in Missouri.

Jim Talent

#4. Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with ... will determine your life a decade from now.

John Spence

#5. The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.

John Polkinghorne

#6. At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

John Hagel III

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

Charles Kuralt

#10. Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Agatha Christie

#11. With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

John Henry Newman

#12. I do lots of other drugs but I smoke pot maybe 5-10 times a year now. I used to smoke it all the time, but I don't, and I haven't for awhile. That's just because it makes me - and I'm not saying this about everybody else - but it makes me kind of dumb and self-conscious.

David Cross

#13. They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

Victor Hugo

#14. I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

Pat Nixon

#15. Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

Roy Blount Jr.

#16. Sookie, my little bullet-sucker
Eric, my big bullshitter

Charlaine Harris

#17. It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.

Elvis Presley

#18. Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

Bo Burnham