The Unexpected Quotes

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

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.

Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

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.

She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.

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

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

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.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

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.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.

Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

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

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

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

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

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.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

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

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

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.

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

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

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.

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

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

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