Quotes About Unpredictability

A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

Every tour we do, everybody's always wondering, 'What's Tommy Lee going to do next? What new, wild and crazy thing is he going to come up with?'

I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

Every game is different. Every opposition comes with a different threat.

Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can't predict what you're going to say next.

I like messy. What fun is tidy?

People change just in a blink! You won't get any explanation for that. They change in front of your eyes or behind of your eyes. Just they change unconditionally.

No one could have predicted this, but this is how the world works. One moment, you are stuck, and then the moment expands, as if God were forcing it open with his pretty bare hands, and you find yourself in another dimension, and you are still you, but the world around you has suddenly changed colours.

There was nothing predictable in this life, and very little that was fair. •

I live to defy y'all's expectations.

You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Follow me," Myrnin said. "And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.