Unexpected Quotations | Page 2

I was just trying to help out. It was unexpected and a decision had to be made quickly.

It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.

I think as much as anything, this has raised the confidence level of our players. I don't think there was any question this was totally unexpected by everyone, including the players ... To see the excitement on their faces in the Clemens press conference ...

Other studies show that about 40 percent of young adults are uninsured at some time during the year following their graduation. With college expenses so high, the last thing parents and their children need is to get hit with unexpected medical bills.

Our pitch is top-class and the lads enjoy playing on it. I'm sure we are a better team at home although I'm not making any excuses for last Saturday's unexpected defeat at Tow Law Town which was only our third in 29 games.

Our girls were really looking forward to this meet. It's a good stepping stone heading into the Big Tens. They had us in position to break the streak, but it just seemed like each segment, we had an unexpected place.

I was thinking, Why am I doing this, do I really want to go... it was unexpected thing after another, but I made a lot of friends.

I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.

It is a little bounce and it's not to be unexpected given how much the markets sold off last week so I wouldn't read too much into this. Earnings are going to be very important to help set the tone, but the out quarters are still very much at risk and those estimates have not come down to the extent I think they should.

I think I started of really well from the first match. I was really read. It was a bit unexpected because I didn't play a lot of matches coming into the tournament, so I thought I would be a little rusty at the beginning.

I think it has real promise as long as there isn't some unexpected safety issue.

We were somewhat unexpected by the ease in which we won this game. They had some pieces that concerned us when we watched their film.

The problem was an unexpected power outage and we apologize to our viewers. We tried to immediately address the issue.

We didn't really expect to go this long without one, to tell you the truth, the way the season started. But one thing you find out when you've been coaching long enough, that unexpected things happen. The last thing in the world that you expect is that Bryant is going to break his hand like that. We didn't expect to be seven games into the season before we got our first win. We're very grateful to have it.

I was approached about a month ago. It was unexpected and unsolicited. I've seen how investment banks work from the other side of the fence but I've a lot to learn about how they work on the inside.

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.

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.

The Academy tends to like to mix the expected with the unexpected choices,

We have observed totally unexpected and abnormal increases in trading volumes and it is extremely regrettable that we had to take such action.

We get in the car, and we find unexpected images. We go to church, and stop to take pictures of the cows, horses and buffalo around here.

Under the circumstances, it is difficult to envisage the United Nations operating with a large number of international staff inside Iraq in the near future unless there is an unexpected and significant improvement in the overall security situation,

We were very happy going to Hos and never thought twice about it, ... People make decisions in life, and I don't look back, so (making Hostetler the backup) wasn't something that was unexpected to me or the team. He's an excellent recruit and he's going to do a great job.

Well, it was a little bit of surprise that it happened the way it did. I was very happy with the way we competed and played to win the game against Minnesota, but the unexpected came after the game when we heard about Duluth and I don't think anyone anticipated Duluth losing. But it was a pleasant surprise that luck worked out for us and things fell into place.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

That was a such a treat, ... because it was so unexpected given Regis' popularity. I did have a few lines prepared just in case, which I had just planned to tell my wife (Lois, a former TV producer) privately after I lost.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

This was a surprise. But I tell our guys to expect the unexpected ... When you come to grips with how you have to beat a team, most of the time you are going to be very successful.

We did feel that there was a good chance he would have to be replaced. It was completely unexpected that he would be able to finish the game. It's one of those wonderful surprises that, every once in while, comes along.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Expect the unexpected.

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

We're not saying that we should turn into a nation of clock-watchers. Most people do not mind putting in some extra time when there's a crisis or an unexpected rush. But too many workplaces have come to depend on very long hours. They get taken for granted and staff have to do even more if there is an unexpected rush,

The defeat was unexpected and can't really be explained. I have read everything that has been written and I agree: it was a horrible game. The supporters are right to be angry, as they went all the way to see that.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

What I'm watching in the last two years is absolutely unprecedented, unexpected and absolutely remarkable.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

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.

The cooling in prices in April was not unexpected given the surge in March. However, the underlying picture remains reasonably healthy as demand conditions have remained quite firm.

The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

While parts of India have also suffered from this unexpected natural disaster, we are prepared to extend any assistance with rescue and relief which you may deem appropriate,

This result was an impressive and completely unexpected finding because the study was not focused on helping smokers quite smoking. In fact, to participate in the study, smokers had to attest that they did not have a planned quit date for the next six months.

This result was an impressive and completely unexpected study.

There has never been a successful follow-up to the original 'Kong'; the 1970s remake tanked. The original film became such an unexpected success that there has never been anything substantial to add to it, and no possible way to compete with what was already achieved.

There can be little doubt that the cash highs have been made in the cattle market for now. In fact, we may have seen the cyclical high price barring some unexpected outside influence. Any rallies of 150 to 200 points in both fats and feeders should be viewed as good selling opportunities.

There have been so many unexpected twists and turns in the proceedings and in these developments to date, that to count on that, even though I know their word is good, is more than we can accept,

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

Too often, bridal shows are boring - I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.

To be in the quarterfinals is pretty unexpected for most people, ... But I didn't feel like it was that absurd to think that I could be here, and hopefully even further.

To be in the quarterfinals is pretty unexpected for most people. But I didn't feel like it was that absurd to think that I could be here, and hopefully even further.

We've come to expect the unexpected around here.

We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed,

When he gets the puck, people start to come out of their seats. It's expect the unexpected with Max." ()

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

We believe that established enterprises accelerated IT, equity investment, partnerships, and other types in spending since they feared that an unexpected and superior dot.com business model would threaten their existence. With the diminution of the dot.com threat, purchase cycles should lengthen, return on investment should matter again, and the worth of business models will have to be demonstrated.

With the latest increase, New Jersey families will spend another $543 to send their children to Rutgers this year. That's an unexpected expense that will put a strain on most families' budgets. We're asking our colleagues in the state Legislature to join us in supporting this bill's passage so that this does not happen again next year. We have a historic commitment to make higher education available to our students.

We found some unexpected problems related to our customer receivables in Mexico, which we announced two weeks ago, and we have launched our own thorough internal investigation. We are fully cooperating with the SEC and will be in a position to provide more information when we release second-quarter earnings.

Very few parents do save for college in their child's early years. When I counsel young parents, I make it clear that they have emergency reserves to protect them for unexpected events and so they don't have to use these education funds as a first line of support.

When you think back in the last couple of years, there have been so many unexpected twists and turns in the market. It really makes sense to stay diversified.

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities

We believe that our confirmatory testing indicated that the problem was confined to a limited number of lots. Therefore, today's action ... is unexpected and disappointing. But we respect the regulatory authority's judgment, because we believe it's fundamentally based on concerns for safety.

Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

Crude inventories remain sturdy, despite today's unexpected drop.

Due to continued unexpected demand weakness, we now expect sequential unit growth in the mid-single digits, which is well below consensus expectations.

Aside from the unexpected slump in non-rural goods, we note that imports are still strong in capital, so the business investment theme is still alive and well.

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

What was unexpected was the quantity of iron we found in the samples. Perhaps iron triggered the bloom. Was it from Asian dust as many has widely believed, or did it come from somewhere else?

Every flight I've been on, there's something unexpected that happens. That's the nature of the business.

Every semester my wife and I get together and develop a plan for the semester. We try our best to stick to that plan. If something unexpected comes up, we leave each other notes so we can know what each other is doing.

Everyone's worry on the economy was jobs. Today's report was unexpected by most people and it allayed fears as to whether this is going to be a jobless recovery.

Everybody thought this championship could produce unexpected results and Portugal-Greece already showed this. In our group, all teams can produce surprises.

A treasure beyond price for fans of both the classic Hammett novel and the three (that's right, three) film versions of the doomed quest for a black bird. An incredible amalgam of photos, memos, letters, reviews, whatever, this will make fans of the book or the film gasp as one unexpected delight succeeds another. With this book, wonders really do never cease.

Attempting to develop a piece of land without doing the appropriate due diligence can lead to unexpected surprises during the project. Failing to do so is one of the main reason as to why companies can go bankrupt after the project has commenced.

It wouldn't be unexpected that those products wouldn't launch as strongly as otherwise.

While the US trade deficit showed an unexpected improvement in February, any lasting market enthusiasm was firmly misplaced. Energy prices continue to rise while China remains resistant to further currency flexibility.