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Quotes About Unpredictability

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.
~ George R. R. Martin
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.
~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
~ Zainab Salbi
I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.
~ Scott M. Gimple
There is no typical day and I intend to keep it that way for the next 20 years.
~ Ronnie Screwvala
I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.
~ Becki Newton
When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.
~ Rob Lowe
In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance
~ Errol Flynn
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
~ T. Boone Pickens
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
~ T. Boone Pickens
Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!
~ T.D. Jakes
Life isn't theatre, much though you might like it to be. It doesn't follow a script. It's messy
~ Tammy Cohen
Mercury in retrograde? More like I'm permanently insane no matter what the fuck Mercury does
~ Tao Lin
Porque si la duración de un universo es calculable, no lo es la variedad de vida que se genera. […] nada de eso puede predecirse, porque nada de eso era inevitable
~ Ted Chiang
The buildings we have erected, the art and music and verse we have composed, the very lives we've led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them were inevitable.
~ Ted Chiang
Even if a universes's life span is calculable , the variety of life that is generated within it is not. The buildings we have erected, the art and music and verse we have composed, the very lives we've led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them was inevitable... The fact that it {universe} spawned such plenitude is a miracle...
~ Ted Chiang
Because even if a universe's life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not. The buildings we have erected, the art and music and verse we have composed, the very lives we've led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them was inevitable.
~ Ted Chiang
Chaos has sexy arms...
~ Ted David Harris
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
~ William S. Burroughs
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.
~ Robert Greene
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
~ Hosea Ballou