Unexpected Quotes

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

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

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.

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.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.

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.

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

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.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

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.

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

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.