Quotes About Unpredictability

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

My whole career's been kind of crazy, so you can't really surprise me.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

In football, surprises are always possible.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. Light

you don't have the memory of your future; {that}the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine.

We were subject to the wonders and frustrations of unpredictability and better able to withstand them because time moved at what would only later seem a gentle flow, like a river across a prairie before the waterfall of acceleration we would all tumble over. We were prepared for encounters with strangers in ways that the digital age would buffer a lot of us from later. It was an era of both more unpredictable contact and more profound solitude.

Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension.

What escapes categorization can escape detection altogether

Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes

What is the message that wild animals bring, the message that seems to say everything and nothing? What is this message that is wordless, that is nothing more or less than the animals themselves- that the world is wild, that life is unpredictable in its goodness and its danger, that the world is larger than your imagination.