Unexpected Quotes - Page 8

I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.

The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that the Soviet Union collapsed and apartheid in South Africa collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down. I don't know anyone who foresaw those events. It seems to me that as a species we are constantly trying to adapt ourselves to the unexpected. In the meantime, we talk as if we are in control, and we're not. This seems to me to be the truth about the twentieth century.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Chaos is a natural state of being - as natural as structure is - so there is no reason to fear it. On the contrary, one should embrace it. It means something extraordinary and unexpected is about to happen.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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

Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far?

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to explore linguistic potentials than to keep on using language that's past its expiration date.

Isn't it the unexpected that teaches us the most?

An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

The unexpected always happens.

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things, and we have really imaginative, smart writers - I can't wait to see what they make with the ingredients they have on hand.

The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic changes for projects. But by the same token, manga can't be drawn by a lot of people, as done in film.

When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.

The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.