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Quotes About Unexpected

You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?" "The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as– –" "My blushes, Watson!" Holmes murmured in a deprecating voice. "I was about to say, as he is unknown to the public." "A touch! A distinct touch!" cried Holmes. "You are developing a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
To my surprise, the young lady held up her gloved hand to detain me. If your friend, she said, would be good enough to stop, he might be of inestimable service to me.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
So this is it, huh? Not how I thought I'd go out. (He glanced around at the extremely green cavern walls.) Well, at least we'll all be minty fresh when we go." – Sasha
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You'll never see the moments coming that will forever mutilate your life—at least not until after they've mowed you down. —SAVITAR
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Things happen when they happen, not when you're ready for them.
~ Shiloh Walker
Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.
~ Shirley Jackson
Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship;
~ Shirley Jackson
Then out of the blue there came Shapiro the Bookkeeper who didn't play a bad game of chess and Rose fell for him.
~ Sholem Aleichem
But once—and whenever you hear but once, you know trouble's coming—something happened.
~ Sholem Aleichem
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
~ Sidney Lumet
Wer hätte das gedacht! Wir haben eine Gynäkologin in unserer Mitte. Sie sind besorgt wegen Krankheitserregern
~ Sidney Sheldon
Four or five cockroaches exploded from the inside of his shin pad, scurrying in all directions on the ice. Cockroaches. Those big, black ugly bugs so gross they make beetles look cuddly.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
I couldn't believe it. Riley didn't flip the puck into the net to put us ahead. He actually held onto the puck and continued around the Chiefs' net. It stunned the crowd into silence. Riley Judd had just given up a chance at his third goal of the game.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
One moment I would be collecting the mail or a bundle of designer clothes for a photoshoot from the courier drop-off point at 'Gate Six' at the far end of the Wapping plant, and the next I'd be asked to work on an investigation into drug smuggling or the IRA. With hindsight, it was absurd.
~ Simon Reeve
God mercifully prevented me from reading the mystics, so that it would be evident to me that I had not fabricated this absolutely unexpected contact.
~ Simone Weil
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
~ Siobhan Dowd
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
One night - it was in June, '89 - there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn, and glances at the clock.
~ Sir Arthut Conan Doyle
I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile. Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Wow. So you didn't expect it? No. Not at all. Were you like, 'Fuck!
~ Sophie Kinsella
But life takes sudden twists.
~ Sophocles
My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.