Unexpected Quotes

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

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

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.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

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

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

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

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

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

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.

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden there's an unexpected drop in PCs.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

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.

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

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.

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.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

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

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

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

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

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.

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.

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

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