The Unexpected Quotes

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

I want to show the world there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life, after diagnosis.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

its fun to do the unexpected.

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

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

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

The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things.

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.