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Quotes About Unexpected

This was a bit like running into a clan of kilted Scotsmen in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
~ Neal Stephenson
Everything felt awkward. There was a sense of being on a perfectly good road in a perfectly sound car that was, however, veering into a ditch.
~ Neal Stephenson
In 1994, NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory detected something as unexpected as the Velas' discoveries: frequent flashes of gamma rays right near Earth's surface. They were sensibly dubbed "terrestrial gamma-ray flashes." Nuclear holocaust? No, as is evident from the fact that you're reading this sentence.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Once Mullah Nasruddin's favorite clock stopped working, so he took it for repair. When the repairperson took the back off the clock and turned it over, a dead fly fell out. "So that's the problem," said Nasruddin. "The little mechanic who operated it has died!
~ Neil Douglas-Klotz
The great thing about real life is that it will always surprise you.
~ Neil Strauss
the cornmeal fritters were very good if you could forget about the maggots
~ Nevil Shute
no man prepar'd for it; no man consider'd it would come like a Thief in the night, exactly as it happens in the case of death.'74
~ Niall Ferguson
The Russian commander whose ship was torpedoed by SMS Emden off Penang on October 28, 1914, was certainly unprepared for the new age of global conflict. Only twelve rounds of ammunition were ready on deck; but there were sixty Chinese prostitutes below.
~ Niall Ferguson
There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
~ Nicholas Sparks
In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.
~ Nicholas Sparks
What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.
~ Nicholas Sparks
You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we're on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That's the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Jamie : I didn't want anybody to be weird around me.. Landon : Including me?. Jamie : Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Al final, la gente que sufre tiene que 'querer' seguir adelante, que el primer paso, esa chispa de motivación, tiene que salir de ellos. Y cuando lo hace, abre la puerta a lo inesperado
~ Nicholas Sparks
i didn't plan on falling in love with you, and i doubt you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. we fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!
~ Hilary Duff
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
~ Wes Anderson
You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.
~ Christopher Atkins
It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.
~ Jason Statham
I'll go into Ruth's Chris. They'll have my room in the back and I'd go to pay the bill and somebody had paid the bill already. That happened multiple times. That's the love people give you.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.
~ Gloria Estefan