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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
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen. -- Alex Flinn
The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things. -- Christophe Honore
What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together -- Paul Smith
When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things. -- JÃ¸rgen Leth
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. -- George Santayana
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. -- C. S. Lewis
She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. -- Paulo Coelho
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things above all that we ask or think. -- Andy Murray
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry. -- John Ashbery
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
The best type of date is when it's an unexpected thing. It could be starting as a friendship or a first meeting where you meet and then you end up talking for 15 hours in a row. That's kind of where you're so in sync that it's just cohesive and it's fun. -- Nolan Gerard Funk
The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap -- Amy Carmichael
for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot. -- Alice Meynell
There's a lot of unexpected things. Wonderful things, tough things, but there's always somebody just ready to pitch in. That's probably the heaviest thing, the constant amount of support because it makes you just want to do even better. It makes you want to do stuff for the fans, makes you want to do stuff for the people on the show. I love it. -- Scott M. Gimple
After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible. -- Elizabeth George Speare
Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing. -- Ken Hill
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. -- Leo Rosten
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. -- Leon Trotsky
I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. -- Paul Watson
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. -- Norman Foster
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. -- James Thurber
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. -- Carl Sandburg
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. -- Dean Wareham
I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious. -- Robert Adams
Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys. -- Imtiaz Ali
I like roles that bring the unexpected. Roles that may challenge the way people think about things and perceive things. And I like roles that reflect a reality. -- Bokeem Woodbine
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns. -- Jason Schwartzman
On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back. -- Gore Verbinski
My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics. -- Kristin Gore
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control. -- Joan D. Vinge
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. -- David Suzuki
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. -- Joel Osteen
In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places. -- Riz Ahmed
Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected. -- Faith Sullivan
When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen -- Oprah Winfrey
The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things. -- Kirsten Vangsness
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I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! -- Brandon Sanderson
It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places. -- Karen Marie Moning
When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things. -- JÃ¸rgen Leth
Itâ??s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places. -- Karen Marie Moning
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected. -- Neil Armstrong
Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason. Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting. -- Adriana Lima
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising. -- Brian Cox
My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance. -- Damian Kulash
I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent. -- Jeff Goldblum
The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality. -- Anagarika Govinda
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones. -- Jean Dubuffet
My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things. -- Mary Engelbreit
You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live. -- Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing. -- Emily P. Freeman
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