Unexpected Quotes - Page 6

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.

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.

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

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.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.