Quotes About Unpredictability

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Reality had a habit of pulling coincidences no one would accept in fiction

black swan event like the storming of the Bastille, in other words, the broader you have to draw the boundaries around what you consider to be the event itself.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I don't intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

There is no normality in life.

I see a lot of similarities and coincidences in life, in general.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

The sun had risen as usual, but nothing else about the day was the same as the day before.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

We're going six thousand miles an hour around the sun and nobody's driving this bitch!" said Gary Busey from the woods, where, for his own reasons, he was halfway up an eighty-foot pine tree.

Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

It just shows what strange things life throws at yer. It doesn't do to fall out with someone and say yer'll never speak to them again as long as yer live, because yer never know whether some day yer'll have to eat your words.

Sometimes you plant an acorn, and you plant it in good faith and instead of finding yourself with an admirable sturdy single oak tree, you're landed with a terrible mad forest that won't stop growing in all directions and develops an uncontrollable life of its own.

like an emotional tooth-ache, bearable much of the time but with a propensity to flare up without notice and cause agony.

The universe gets more disorderly all the time.