logo

Quotes About Unexpected

It hits you in unexpected moments, this city's romance; everywhere, air pockets of loveliness just when your lungs can't take any more congestion or pollution or stifling newspaper headlines.
~ Kamila Shamsie
The attention and all the interviews and all that, it has been wild and something that I'm not used to.
~ Lee Isaac Chung
Let me be very frank. I didn't expect to be introduced and elected.
~ Nguyen Phu Trong
I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
~ Isla Fisher
After the NFLPA game, coaches were coming up to me and saying, 'We didn't even know who you were, we didn't even know your name; we weren't supposed to be even looking at you, but man, we have no choice.' And, like, the NFLPA game, I wasn't even invited until the last minute.
~ Shaquill Griffin
There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
~ Jeff Bezos
In 2006, when doing a live stage show in Ireland, I tried for the first time to instantly induct a subject on stage, something I had never done before, nor did I know if it would ever work. The result almost cost me my career; the man I grabbed and instantly inducted went out cold and fell to the floor.
~ Keith Barry
Ironic things are interesting.
~ Virgil Abloh
No one can write down all the crazy things that have happened for me, and coming back to work for the NFL is the most ironic part of all.
~ Bob Sapp
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Life is full of ironies and absurdities.
~ Adam West
I used to sing as a kid, but it was quite squeaky. I think I was about 19 or 20, and we used to go to these jam sessions and open mics. I just got the courage to sing one day. I don't think anyone expected it to sound like that.
~ Rag'n'Bone Man
I got to travel to Japan. I never in my life thought I would go to Japan.
~ Baron Corbin
I never, ever thought Jeremy Corbyn would be quoting me!
~ Michael Dapaah
It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
~ Edmund S. Muskie
I win over Anthony Johnson six out of seven days. But, the only thing that wasn't supposed to happen, happened.
~ Alexander Gustafsson
I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
~ Jim Sturgess
Well, war, as I've told her a hundred times, makes strange bedfellows.
~ Francis Brett Young
Where's Dorothy?" Dad said. "I don't know. She came in, took the money and went. I don't even know how she got in." "What did she say?" "She said "shush"" "And what did you say?" "I shushed
~ Frank Cottrell Boyce
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.
~ Frank Sheed
I walked back into the bedroom and, after all that, I actually was surprised. She lay on the bed, her hands nonchalantly behind her head, with the banana between her legs. Only half of it was alfresco. It was if we'd had sex and then, before heading for the bathroom, I'd bookmarked her vagina so as not to lose my place.
~ Frank Skinner
I find that a great part of the information I have acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way
~ Franklin P. Adams
That's where proper stories begin, don't they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?
~ Franny Billingsley
My, my," said Eldric. "You are full of surprises.
~ Franny Billingsley