Quotes About Unexpected

These are David's opportunities: the occasions in which difficulties, paradoxically, turn out to be desirable. The lesson of the trickster tales is the third desirable difficulty: the unexpected freedom that comes from having nothing to lose. The trickster gets to break the rules.

We are all, at heart, gradualists, our expectations set by the steady passage of time. But the world of the Tipping Point is a place where the unexpected becomes expected, where radical change is more than possibility. It is—contrary to all our expectations—a certainty.

When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

I got a rock.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

The best metaphors appear unexpectedly out of the deep blue by means of intuition and my infatuation with nuance.

And what a joy again when, in the center of the madness, you say unexpectedly something very deep, the sudden illuminations of living, the lantern never quite blown out—I love that too.

Je pars simplement pour partir, la surprise même est mon but - l'imprevu - Comprennez-vous?

Send the shears flying and they'll always find their way up the gardener's ass.

Life so often arrives all of a sudden.

Life so often arrives all of a sudden. And who knows which side you will find yourself on?

We had apparently brought with us only the case of Dewey beer (from Delaware)

Beatrix is kneeling beside him, fanning his face. 'Are you okay, Boris?' says Beatrix. 'Never felt better!' says Boris, suddenly leaping up and stretching out to his full height.

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn't come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren't ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn't imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn't really imagine it hadn't.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

You really haven't lived until a dog has stepped on your face. I

I followed Margo into the kitchen. "I want some friddiggity for dessert." she announced. "What's friddiggity?" Mom asked. "Dog diggity fridge," Claire replied. Dad spun around. "The dog's in the fridge?" As Byron fell off his chair in hysterics, Adam yanked open the refrigerator and gasped. "Pow's frozen solid!" Poor Claire turned bone-white.

What I didn't figure was that I'd be eating dinner with the Stepsister from the Black Lagoon.

One … two … thr—Hello? Is Liz Lewis there, please? … Oh, hi, Liz. My name is—Candy. Candy Kane…. No, no joke….