Quotes About Unexpected

WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. Alex

I sent a car to pick you up at school, Alex. I thought you might like a lift. I didn't expect a declaration of war.

I nearly choked on my milkshake.

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

I'm not in public life except by accident.

When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.

I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

A microphone pack once fell down my knickers and nearly pulled my pants down.

I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

A project like 'Rizzoli & Isles' is something you can't pursue. It's something that comes to you... I like to call it 'fairy dust.' And it happened without my having to do anything.

There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've experienced is that the good stuff comes from places you don't expect.

I got lost but look what I found.

Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?

I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.