Unexpected Quotes

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

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

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

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.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

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

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

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

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

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

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

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

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

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.

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

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.