Quotes About Unpredictability

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

We don't ever get bored of what we're doing because every day is something different.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

My travel plans are always sudden. But that always works out better because it ends up being more spontaneous.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

Our lives are shaped by others literally from birth, and even the best of intentions can result in the most unexpected of hurts.

That's how she was. You could never be sure what she would be up to next. There are ships difficult to handle, but generally you can depend on them behaving rationally. With that ship, whatever you did with her you never knew how it would end. She was a wicked beast. Or, perhaps, she was only just insane.

Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect

Our reasons for reading what we do are as eccentric as our reasons for living as we do.

Takav ni je teret u tom trenutku legao na dušu da sam mislio da ?u umrijeti. Ali, svemir nije tako milosrdan: pustit ?e te da umreš zbog zatrovanog zuba, udarca u glavu, zbog tu?e pogreške ili gluposti, ali te ne?e pustiti da umreš kad to poželiš, jer kad bi to dopuštao, živog bi?a u njemu više ne bi bilo.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Jack Daniels, that is a wild man drink. It should come with bail money. Because on Jack you don't know where you're going to end up, but you know when you get there you're not going to be wearing pants.

I want to be a rollercoaster and not a train.

One of the problems with travelling in the TARDIS, no matter what state of repair it might ultimately be in, is that you can leave a place of sweltering heat to find yourself in bitter cold, and you always seem to have put on the wrong clothes for it.

Rewards and penalties are totally random; knaves thrive and saints go hungry.

He liked to think he was brave, but he felt the fear of so much unpredictability, swirling all around him like the waters of a raging ocean, sharp rocks hidden beneath the dark, white-capped surface.

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

The paradox in our relation to nature is that the more deeply a culture respects the indifference of nature, the more creatively it will call upon its own spontaneity in response. The more clearly we remind ourselves that we can have no unnatural influence on nature, the more our culture will embody a freedom to embrace surprise and unpredictability.

When I am touched, I am touched only as the person I am behind all the theatrical masks, but at the same time I am changed from within-and whoever touches me is touched as well. We do not touch by design. Indeed, all designs are shattered by touching. Whoever touches and whoever is touched cannot but be surprised. (The unpredictability of this phenomenon is reflected in our reference to the insane as "touched.")

Genuine travel has no destination. Travelers do not go somewhere, but constantly discover they are somewhere else. Since gardening is a way not of subduing the indifference of nature but of raising one's own spontaneity to respond to the disregarding vagaries and unpredictabilities of nature, we do not look on nature as a sequence of changing scenes but look on ourselves as persons in passage.