Unexpected Quotes

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.
Ali Larter

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
Paul D. Boyer

Travel, Career, Benefit

I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden there's an unexpected drop in PCs.
Daniel Morgan

Seen, Heard, Lead

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
Nina Fedoroff

Health, Far, Scientific

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Anselm Kiefer

History, Thinking, Different

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
Helen Thomas

Business, Expect, News

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.
Steve Wynn

Government, Washington, Shocking

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
Graham Nelson

Different, Same, Rather

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
Kathleen Hanna

Women, Crisis, College

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.
Dante Hall

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Alexander Alekhine

Work, Bad, Long

We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.
Mark E. Hyman

Work, Attention, Ready

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

Good, Great, Men

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
Florenz Ziegfeld

Great, May, Beginning

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

Love, Time, Writing

Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.
Ellie Kemper

Through, Angeles, Courses

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
Victoria Legrand

Music, Art, End

One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
Jeff Vandermeer

Beauty, Liberty, Service

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
Takeshi Kitano

Violence, Comedy, Expect

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
Brian Aldiss

Places, Pleasant, Letters

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.
Mary Matalin

Writing, She, Books

When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.
Mitchell Zuckoff

Small, Speak, Year

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
Laura Chinchilla

Time, Try, Working

Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.
Gilles Duceppe

History, Country, Spring

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Saul Steinberg

Best, Future, Understand

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
Earl Derr Biggers

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

Love, Best, Real

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

Through, Progress, Felt

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
David Canary

Fun, Two, Wonderful

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