Quotes About Unexpected

I never dreamed I would coach at UCLA. It was not one of those things in my coaching career I thought would happen. It's a tremendous blessing, and I'm going to make the most of it.

I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.

Tonight started innocently enough. Most terrible things do, right?

Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still hoping you could call tomorrow and yells out, 'Right this way.'Well, here I come.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.

But to his surprise, just before daylight, he found himself being aroused from a slumber he had not known he had achieved.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Jack Nightingale didn't intend to kill anyone when he woke up that chilly November morning.

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

I did not recognise the man at the door and, in split-second time, I pointed the barrel of the fearsome looking weapon to the downstairs living room window, blew that out and then levelled it at the bedroom window above, and blew that out. The owner of the property literally shit his pants and slammed the door.

He caught me neat, right on the fucking face and I took one step back and thought, you're not getting away with that you bastard! I was punching the piss out of him, he kept going down, but I didn't kick him, he'd had enough. I didn't put the boot in to a man older than myself. But this confrontation was out of the blue, out of the fucking blue. That's what I had to face.

She felt an unexpected pang of homesickness (or was it some physical complaint?) and suddenly remembered that it was her mother's birthday today or tomorrow or sometime last week.

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

Boyle looked like a Monty Python in drag. Then she opened her mouth and this epic noise came ripping out of her. Within a week, she was the most celebrated person on earth, an

sun is just coming up as he exits the lobby and heads outside, the desert morning air far cooler than he expected. Sprints or

As McChrystal took the lay of the land, "I felt like we were high-school students who had wandered into a Mafia-owned bar."34

The problem with all fields of research is that people are impatient. It a particular line of enquiry seems to be making progress, we continue down the line, but if it seems to be getting nowhere, we abandon it. This is a problem because the route to the future is often tortuous. Things seems to be moving towards the goal but then unexpectedly snake off in the wrong direction. Initially unproductive approaches can often turn out to be the only ones that lead to the desired destination.

Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It's not the time that matters But how you answer the door.

like a shaft of coal jutting from a glass of milk.

And one more thing...

Oh, and one more thing....