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Quotes About Unexpected

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.
~ Phoebe Snow
Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.
~ Melissa McCarthy
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
~ John Lithgow
Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!
~ Adam West
Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.
~ Mathieu Amalric
But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.
~ Jason Schwartzman
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
~ Robert Fripp
Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.
~ Zachary Cole Smith
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.
~ Jeff Beck
I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.
~ James Blunt
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
~ Bobby Vinton
I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.
~ Ed Helms
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
~ Tim Winton
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
~ Ivan Doig
Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.
~ Kevin McKidd
Don't invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up, " she used to warn me.
~ Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
I tried to blow a yellow jacket out and now it's wearing a bow tie in its mouth.
~ Ana Claudia Antunes
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
~ Stacey D'Erasmo
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
~ Graham Chapman
I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
~ Ann Widdecombe
It is fun to think about your pet moonlighting as a water delivery man, or a bouncer at a bar. Thinking about your dog out in the world, instead of laying on your bed when you leave, is really fun.
~ Eric Stonestreet
Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.
~ J. K. Rowling