Unexpected Quotes

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

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.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.