Something Unexpected Quotes

• As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Thinking, Safe

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• All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

  Joe Johnston

  Real, Character, Black And White

  "'Captain America' director: 'This movie is going to surprise some people'". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

  Bruno Rossi

  Progress, Looks, World

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• No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Bravery, Unexpected

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• Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

  Paul Theroux

  Unexpected, Now And Then, Traveler

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• The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

  Samuel Johnson

  Essence, Poetry, Delight

  Samuel Johnson (1819). “The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works”, p.201

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• Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God if something unexpected happens- they have their savings account. They don't need God to help them- they have their retirement plan in place. They don't genuinely seek out what life God would have them live- they have life figured and mapped out. They don't depend on God on a daily basis- their refrigerators are full and, for the most part, they are in good health. The truth is, their lives wouldn't look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.

  Francis Chan

  Retirement, Believe, People

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.43, David C Cook

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• As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

  Krishna Das

  Practice, Unexpected, Happens

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2015

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• It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world-together, at the same time-the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength.

  John Welwood

  Pain, Heart, Joy

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• In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

  Fernando Perez

  Energy, Cuba, Unexpected

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

  Marisa Silver

  Writing, Character, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

  Dean Wareham

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I made a promise to myself that I would try to introduce something unexpected in every single episode of the series. It was largely to amuse myself as much as anything. I didn't ever want the audience to feel that they knew everything.

  Patrick Stewart

  Promise, Trying, Want

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• When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn't come through in the clinical trials. And I'm sure [drug companies] would love it if, in fact, FDA, recognizing that, would say, OK, maybe you don't have to do your trial with 30,000 people because we're going to find out shortly after registration because we'll have a lot of people taking the drug and we'll be able to see what happened using PMI.

  Francis Collins

  Fda, People, Drug

  Source: www.politico.com

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• You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Garden, Rose

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• Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Want Something, Design, Challenges

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2015.

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• If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spring, Winter, Men

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• Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Thinking

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• Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

  Ralph Lauren

  Fashion, Fun, Risk

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• perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

  Hugh Prather

  Life, Mistake, Would Be

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• I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.

  Brad Falchuk

  Real, Character, Mean

  "We're All Gleeks - 10 Questions for Glee Co-Creator Brad Falchuk". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 7, 2009.

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• I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Book, Self, May

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• You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.

  Andrew Bird

  Long, Satisfaction, Littles

  "Andrew Bird Talks ‘Break It Yourself,’ And His Obsession With Maps". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The disappearance did not take place gradually but abruptly. From 1/500 the resistance at 4.2K, it could be established that the resistance had become less than a thousand-millionth part of that at normal temperature. Thus the mercury at 4.2K has entered a new state, which, owing to its particular electrical properties, can be called the state of superconductivity.

  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

  Science, Doubt, Owing

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• Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

  Meryl Streep

  Jobs, Interesting, Acting

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