Quotes About Surprises

There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

Sometimes, your life shatters when you least expect it. Car accidents, lost pregnancies, divorce, loneliness. People you loved could disappoint you, and other people came through when you never expected it. And sometimes, happiness just rains down on you out of the clear blue sky.

I didn't expect the wilderness of love to be something you had to pack for.

Life is full of bad surprises.

In a free economy, a high degree of apparent randomness does not mean actual randomness. An apparently random pattern is evidence not of purposelessness but of an entrepreneurial economy full of creative surprises.

But I still don't have knowledge, interpreting the surprises that others don't know about, that will drive a new narrative. You have to work and think and stress and fret to surmise the surprises by first fathoming the pulse.

Ignored...was the one unbridgeable gap between physics and any such science of human behavior: the surprises that arise from free will and human creativity...they constitute the most important economic events. For a miracle is simply an innovation, a sudden and bountiful addition of information to the system.

The index is retrospective. The crucial alpha, the entropy, the signal modulating that linear advance...comes from knowledge of the entrepreneurial surprises harbored on the edge of the noise.

The switch from a delightful illusion to a still inspiring reality is full of surprises.

We also like obsolete styles because the past is dead, and hence contains no surprises.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

?udnovato je, ali istinito, da te velike nesre?e, kao mine sa duga?kim fitiljem, eksplodiraju tek mnogo docnije, ?esto kad ih ve? niko više ne o?ekuje.

Il mondo continua farci delle sorprese. E noi continuiamo a imparare.

collisions were collisions and couldn't be planned...

But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for . . . or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place.

Pero ¿por que pensar en eso cuando la tierra dorada se extendía delante de nosotros y estaban acechándonos todo tipo de acontecimientos imprevistos para sorprendernos y hacer que nos alegráramos de estar vivos y verlos?

Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.

I have a hard time with films that I feel like I can predict every twist or turn they take from the moment I start reading the script.

When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.

For sure, life takes many twists and turns, and one never knows what the future might hold.

The story behind 'Check Point' is what drew me in. The script had a couple of twists that I really did not see coming... To get out there and raise people's awareness, I think there's a big responsibility in that.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.