Quotes About Unexpected

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

I was walking this far off the ground,' Rogers said, smiling at the memory and holding his hand a foot above the floor. 'You know, there are special times and there are extra special times. I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

2) Geht man von einer Geschichte aus, muss sie zu Ende gedacht werden. (3) Eine Geschichte ist dann zu Ende gedacht, wenn sie ihre schlimmstmögliche Wendung genommen hat. (4) Die schlimmstmögliche Wendung ist nicht vorhersehbar. Sie tritt durch Zufall ein.

Dodging harpies in the night with a wraith dangling below me as we fly to a castle full of dragons. What could go wrong?

A crossbow?" Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans," the man said.

Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

You have four guns." "Someone must have stuck them on when I wasn't looking.

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

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

I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet. "You're like a potato!" I shouted after her. "In a minefield.

The original plan for this novella was for it to be 18,000 words. It ended up at around 40,000. Ah well. That just happens sometimes. (Particularly when you are me.)

It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?

Like slipping on a banana peel around a corner at eighty miles an hour. Piece of cake.

Discomforting, like finding a three-week-old sandwich behind your bed, when you swore you'd finished the darn thing.

I smiled, then realized I was talking to a weird cave slug, which was a new low even for me.

Waxillium had seen some odd things in his life. He'd visited koloss camps in the Roughs, even been invited to join their numbers. He'd met and spoken with God himself and had received a personal gift from Death. That did not prepare him for the sight of a pretty young woman's chest turning nearly transparent, one of the breasts splitting and offering up the hilt of a small handgun.

The comment quieted the room, like a sudden shout of "Who wants extra bacon?" at a bar mitzvah.

Brandon: How does the character fit into the story, how will people expect them to fit into the story, and how, therefore, can I make them incongruous for those expectations? I'm looking for incongruity. Ask yourself why this character cannot fill the role in the plot that they are expected to fulfill. Ask yourself who would be perfect for this role. I'm not going to use that person.

Like a highstorm, regular in their coming, yet always unexpected.

We brought company, I told her. All of it.

More science happens through lucky accidents than you'd believe, Radiant Lopen," Rushu said. "It makes me wonder how many amazing innovations we've passed up because we were searching for something else, and didn't realize what we'd done.

Qué clase de cosas puedes romper? -De todo tipo. Puertas, dispositivos electrónicos, mesas... Una vez rompí un pollo. -¿Un pollo? -Sí, estaba de excursión. Me... frustré y cogí un pollo. Cuando lo solté, se le cayeron de golpe todas las plumas y, a partir de entonces, se negó a comer otra cosa que no fuera comida para gatos.

This is my story. Or, well, part four of it. Otherwise known as "The part where everything goes wrong, and then Alcatraz has a cheese sandwich.