Totally Unexpected Quotes

#1. How totally unexpected, he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

Dorothy Hodgkin

#3. 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

#4. I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction ... It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

Thomas Merton

#5. When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

J. Allen Hynek

#6. This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Carl Crawford

#7. To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Paul Valery

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

Mary Renault

#9. And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#10. All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

Hugh Nibley

#11. So, there you have it, you get up and go to school, thinking it's just another ordinary day and the next thing you know, something totally unexpected happens! Life's like that. I guess it's like Forrest Gump said about the box of chocolates-you just never know what you're going to get!

Melody Carlson

#12. In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

Alexander Rodchenko

#13. What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and seize the victory right then and there.

Miyamoto Musashi

#14. I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.

Bert Stern

#15. If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

Jill D. Block

#16. O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

William Butler Yeats

#17. It's very clear to users, more clear than in other apps, that Foursquare is an app for search and discovery, and we're very good at delivering you a social map that will show you friends' faces on the map and things that you might like.

Dennis Crowley

#18. A great way to get rid of stress is, every once in a while, do something totally different and unexpected without any prior planning.

Franklin Gillette

#19. I guess that's what makes life special. It's unexpected. Scary as hell. But in the end, totally worth it.

Rachel Van Dyken

#20. Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#21. No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success. In no other area are innovative opportunities less risky and their pursuit less arduous. Yet the unexpected success is almost totally neglected; worse, managements tend actively to reject it.

Peter F. Drucker

#22. To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

Virginia Woolf

#23. I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."

Robin Williams

#24. There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

Serra Elinsen

#25. I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.

Alicia Keys