Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

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… — Graham Nelson
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,… — Ali Larter
I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people… — Pete Postlethwaite
The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to… — Frederick Lenz
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing… — Mary Anne Radmacher
See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective. — Mary Anne Radmacher
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny. — Denise Mina
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours -… — Erin Morgenstern
The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people.… — Carl Jung
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. — Sidney Altman
Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.… — Brad Bird
I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want… — Sharon Creech
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… — Stephen Dobyns
I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A… — Ava DuVernay
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring?… — Gilles Duceppe
You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it… — Lisa Edelstein
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,… — Nina Fedoroff
Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins. — Ellie Kemper
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. — Anselm Kiefer
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances. — Takeshi Kitano
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one… — Rose Tremain
There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or… — Richard Branson
A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography… — Martine Franck

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