Unexpected Quotes - Page 11

• My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

  Linda McCartney

  Mother, Hate, Home

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• I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

  Norman Foster

  Habit, Source, Creatures

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• Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

  Agatha Christie

  Strong, Men, Long

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Funerals are Fatal”

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• If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

  Heraclitus

  Thinking, Doe, Compass

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• A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

  Asger Jorn

  Train Of Thought, Creative, Impossible

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• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  Lalla Ward

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

  Dante Hall

  Factors

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• Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

  Jim Bishop

  Grief, Joy, Birth

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• Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Maturity, Rocks

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

  Krishna Das

  Practice, Something Unexpected, Happens

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2015

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• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Book, Self, Oneness

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• I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Death, Thinking, Challenges

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• I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

  Michael Jackson

  Magic

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• If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

  Ralph Marston

  Possibility, Fulfillment, Circumstances

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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 used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Running, Thinking

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• Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.

  Zhuge Liang

  Kingdoms, Unprepared

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• It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

  Archibald Alexander

  Believe, Men, News

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

  Alice James

  Expected

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• The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Investing, Expected, Happens

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• To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Couple, Opportunity, Doors

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• No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

  Wayne Shorter

  Deals, Know How, Knows

  "Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'". "All Things Considered " with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. February 2, 2013.

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• To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Opportunity, Advantage, Available

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• My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Father, Artist

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• The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.

  Richard M. Eyre

  Beautiful, Photography, Magic Moments

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