Quotes About Unexpected

There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound of Max breaking wind.

The more you want to explain about a black swan event like the storming of the Bastille," wrote the sociologist Duncan Watts, "the broader you have to draw the boundaries around what you consider to be the event itself.

One night, for example, I picked up Salvador Dalí on Fifty-Seventh Street and took him to the St. Regis Hotel, not that far away. It was really him, moustache pointing straight up—the whole picture-perfect Dalí. I was flabbergasted. I only had him for a few blocks, and I was dying to say something to him, but I was completely tongue-tied. He paid me, tipped me, and a doorman came to sweep him away.

may have marched to war to ragtime tunes, but few troops could have suspected that among their ranks were men with ballgowns packed in their kitbags

Nobody wants trouble,' said Chandni. 'Trouble just find us.

He was just a rich city boy who enjoyed playing pirates and had never expected anyone to stand up to him. He'd come looking for a fight, and now that a fight had found him he didn't know what to do with it.

Was this what falling in love was like? Not something big and amazing that you knew about straight away, like in a story, but a slow thing that crept over you in waves until you woke up one day and found that you were head-over-heels with someone quite unexpected

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

The Saviour of the world a carpenter! the greatest preacher of the gospel a tent-maker!

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

É estranha a vida. Não nos previne. Mistura tudo sem nos deixar escolher e os momentos de sangue seguem-se aos momentos de alegria...

All good trial lawyers develop an ability to keep their emotions hidden when the unexpected happens...

On croit que les événements importants arrivent à une allure solennelle, un peu comme le Tsar débarquant en visite officielle. Mais ensuite on découvre que ces fameuses "choses importantes" se présentent de biais, furtivement. Et beaucoup plus tard encore, on ne sait plus si ces choses sont vraiment importantes.

Going to play in India at the end of my career was particularly special. I never thought I would get the chance to even visit India, let alone play football there.

To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

The only vocal training I had was playing with a tape recorder as a kid, and you know, doing the beginning of the 'Lone Ranger' show, with a hearty hi-o silver, and just having fun, never really thinking I would be an announcer.

My voice gon' stick out like a turd in a punch bowl.

After 'The Wonder Years,' I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never even knew was possible. But after the character I was playing on 'The Wonder Years,' people said, 'Oh, would you like to do a Burger King thing? And there's a 7 Up thing...' And then I got to do 'Dilbert.' I think my voice kind of fit for that.

I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.

I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.

For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

No one sets their life out and says, 'Boy, this is what I think I'm going to go through.'