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Quotes About Unexpected

CHAPTER 36 "Our brightest blazes are often kindled by unexpected sparks." —Isaiah
~ James Patterson
it was news to almost everyone else on the call.
~ James Patterson
We heard from two bozos who I didn't know
~ James Patterson
Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of the sky.
~ James Patterson
Licata's free hand clapped over his gaping mouth
~ James Patterson
Fred, came home from his Sunday round of golf later than normal and looked very tired. 'Bad day at the course?' his wife asked. " 'Everything was going fine,' said Fred. 'Then Harry had a heart attack and died on the tenth tee.' 'Oh, that's awful!' said the wife. 'You are not kidding,' said Fred. 'For the whole back nine, it was hit the ball, drag Harry, hit the ball, drag Harry.
~ James Patterson
Hell really has frozen over.
~ James Patterson
Well, well," Miller said. "Look who it is." He pulled me up and slammed my back into the wall. Then he got right up in my face. I could see the Cheetos in his teeth.
~ James Patterson
was as surprised to hear me say it as I was. "Where have
~ James Patterson
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
If you had asked me when I was in law school or in college or as a kid, 'Is Daniel going to be running a food company?' I would tell you you're cuckoo. What I was going to be doing was representing Israel at the United Nations.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
~ Harry S Truman
I was a piano major with Craig Robinson from 'The Office.' Me and Craig were very close in college at Illinois State University... It's so bizarre to see us out here now doing things.
~ Sean Hayes
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.
~ George Lucas
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
~ Sidney Altman
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.
~ Roger Ebert
No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.
~ Peyton Hillis
I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.
~ Douglas Trumbull
'SNL' is all about discovering the unknown, the unexpected.
~ Rege-Jean Page
I like to play characters that have an inner confidence about them that maybe you wouldn't expect them to have and that they aren't afraid to unleash occasionally.
~ Aidy Bryant
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
~ George Eliot
Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.
~ Carl Perkins
Even choosing the perfect dinner wine loses its earth-shattering importance if your guests happen to be cannibals, and you, the unsuspecting entree.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.
~ John Oates