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Quotes About Unexpected

Four was difficult and misunderstood, a genius before its time, it belonged to the planet of unexpected disaster.
~ Janet Fitch
There now," she said with some satisfaction and, taking careful aim, she shut her eyes and chopped hard. It worked—but Marty was totally unprepared for the next event. A wildly flopping chicken—with no head—covered her unmercifully with spattered blood. "Stop thet! Stop thet!" she screamed. "Yer s'pose to be dead, ya—ya dumb headless thing.
~ Janette Oke
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!
~ Matt Mullenweg
Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.
~ Chris Harrison
The most exciting songs to me are the unlikely hits, when you think, 'I love this, but why is it on the radio?'
~ Rostam Batmanglij
The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
You get some really unlikely friendships on 'Big Brother' and that's one of the joys of it.
~ Rylan Clark-Neal
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
~ Douglas Coupland
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.
~ Paula Abdul
Often the most unexpected, unpredictable moments in life are the ones that leave the biggest impression and that teach us to roll with the punches.
~ Natalya Neidhart
Life is so unpredictable.
~ Smriti Irani
There were periods when I was first-choice keeper and was starting to consolidate my position when out of the blue I got injured. It happened a few times and it really unsettled me.
~ Lukasz Fabianski
There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul.
~ Lisa Jewell
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
~ Edward Sapir
I like to add something unusual to a dish.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
The idea for any film is always going to be surprising or unusual.
~ David Frankel
Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.
~ Elizabeth Warren
So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
~ Tim Vine
My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.
~ Peter C. Doherty
Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
~ Cy Coleman
I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.
~ Rosamund Pike
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.
~ Bill Plympton
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
~ Susanne Bier