Unexpected Quotations

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

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.

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.

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

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

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

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

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.

I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

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

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

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

Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

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

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

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

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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.

I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

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

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.

If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Post 'quadruple-witching', it would not be unexpected to see the market settle down a bit.

Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be

Now was the time for change because we listened to our audience. And we now can't wait 50 years to change the show again; it might have to be every year. We want it to be totally unexpected but retain the traditions: elephants, clowns and death-defying acts.

My friends say I make them laugh a lot, so I think that somewhere in me is a little comedic ability that comes out in the most inappropriate or unexpected moments. I did a lot of sketch comedy years ago. That's always in me.

I'd like to thank Alex and Brian Lawton for notifying us of Alex's decision prior to the arbitration hearing tomorrow in Toronto. This was not unexpected and I respect Alex for making this family decision. This creates the opportunity for additional ice time for players like Marco Sturm, Niko Dimitrakos and Milan Michalek. If and when Alex decides to return to the National Hockey League, we look forward to him playing for the San Jose Sharks.

When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

We're confident in the work being done, but every flight I've been on, something unexpected happens. You get used to it. It's a complex and dangerous business.

We're shocked that there's so much funding from unexpected revenue sources and at this point the government is allowing tuition fees to be increase and the college strike to persist.

Situations like that make me worried about an unexpected accident, ... There have been miscues on the guerrillas' side and also on the Peruvian government's side.

My impression is that a wave of unexpected catastrophic claims caught them, ... I don't think their business model is broken.

May delivered another dose of unexpected strength in Canadian job creation.

Maintenance is for the unexpected repair, while capital reserve is for future projects. There is a limit done by formula. The problem for districts is having the money to put in those reserves.

Many states are having an unexpected surplus of revenue, and that is because of economic growth. It's mainly because their estimates on economic growth were very low.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

I would say it's not unexpected -- at least their decisions regarding non-degradation and going against re-injection.

Given a high likelihood of a slowing economy, moderating demand from the service provider sector, and unexpected first quarter 2001 seasonality, we see an increasingly likelihood of deceleration going forward.

I can't say unexpected escalation of prices was in my mind. What I wanted the city to do was explain to themselves and Bellevue citizens what they thought the life-cycle cost of the building and its construction was and the cost to operate and maintain it.

Four years ago, some said the world had grown calm, and many assumed that the United States was invulnerable to danger. That thought might have been comforting; it was also false. Like other generations of Americans, we soon discovered that history had great and unexpected duties in store for us.

Business doubles and triples or more on a very unexpected basis.

Here is a highly respected in-house lawyer who was making a positive reputation as a council member. I have not spoken to Richard but I think it is a shame that after just two years when he was filling an unexpected vacancy he does not have the opportunity to carry on and maintain the positive impact he had already made.

I loved and continue to love that job, but this unique -- and unexpected -- opportunity with CBS News is one I became more and more intrigued with and ultimately decided I couldn't pass up.

I lost my focus but unexpected things happen. I wasn't prepared for that situation. I have never dealt with anything like that before.

I agree with Gould that the frequency of stasis in fossil species revealed by the recent analysis was unexpected by most evolutionary biologists.

He was a gentleman as he's always been. He said it was not unexpected and he felt no animosity at that time.

Historically, September represents the end of the annual soft order period that typically begins in May. That orders were below the rate of build in September was not unexpected nor out of the ordinary. That said, if the industry is going to maintain current build rates into 2006, stronger orders above the rate of build will be required to replenish depleted backlogs.

There is an unexpected cautiousness to their tone and their outlook for the fourth quarter. Good isn't good enough. It's got to be really good.

This was not unexpected and I respect Alex for making this family decision,

We can effectively respond to all of these points if allowed to do so. This is disheartening, but not unexpected and these things can be easily addressed.

Matt has come a long way. He came in here as the starter and got knocked to the background. That was very unexpected in his life.

Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3 2005. Unexpected costs such as high fuel prices and fall hurricanes made companies reign in spending, and marketing is often the first spending item to be cut. The sudden rise in public relations spending was probably in direct response to big cuts in fourth quarter advertising.

Lodi needs to rebuild its electric system's financial reserves to ensure system stability during volatile periods in the power market, which it expects to do steadily over a long time horizon by increasing annual net surpluses and fixed charge coverage. If the city achieves its financial plan while at the same time reducing operational risks going forward, the outlook will be revised to stable. Should the city fail to rebuild reserves or increase coverage of fixed charges, or should it experience any other unexpected adverse developments of a financial nature, the rating will be lowered.

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also, theoretical research doesn't work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then, humor. I'm having the most fun when I can have fun with my work.

Our research has shown that we were on target with the 21-to-27-year-old beer drinker through our message and approach in delivering humorous ads with an unexpected twist.

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here.

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here. After three years of working in the Russian court system our expectations were not particularly high.

I think what's unexpected is that you keep reading it will happen and hearing it will happen, and then when it happens you find yourself genuinely thrilled on behalf of women.

People are really stretched. They are banking on everything turning out right for them. That they won't lose their jobs, that they won't run into unexpected expenses. They're betting that the housing market will continue to appreciate.

I'm happy because we are where we need to be. I'm relieved because San Jacinto really made us run. How they played wasn't unexpected to me. I knew they would play hard.

I think I've said it all along, this season isn't totally unexpected to me. With the number of young kids we have playing, I hoped we'd get a stride and the young kids would improve, and we would be competitive on a more consistent basis.