Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Daniel Handler

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Charles Kennedy

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

Jeff Goldblum

I was thinking, Why am I doing this, do I really want to go... it was unexpected thing after another, but I made a lot of friends.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice Duer Miller

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

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Aaron Klug

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Dante Hall

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

It probably won't happen, but there's always the possibility of unexpected consequences.

You never know. This is the Olympics. Unexpected things happen.

Jacqueline Bisset

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

Jason Schwartzman

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

Pierre Omidyar

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

Noah Hawley

It's good to be unexpected with it.

Kirsten Vangsness

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

Mary Renault

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

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.

Ernest Rutherford

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

Julia Quinn

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

Nina Fedoroff

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

George Soros

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

Fay Weldon

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Georges Braque

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

Michael Haneke

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.

Jose Marti

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Plautus

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Laurence J. Peter

The unexpected always happens.

Nicole Krauss

When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with unexpected complexity; some of it asked for, and some of it not. It becomes richer, I find.

Norman Foster

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.