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The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

Quotes by William Ernest Henley

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Quotes by Vladimir Kramnik

Feelings come at really unexpected moments to all of us, and they come so fast.

Quotes by Vittoria Ceretti

'Masti' did so well. It was unexpected and clicked very well with masses.

Quotes by Vivek Oberoi

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.

Quotes by Tony Hoare

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Quotes by Tom Robbins

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

Quotes by Timbaland

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.

Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

No matter the circumstances are that you lose someone, nobody's truly prepared. Steve's accident was so unexpected - it was extremely challenging.

Quotes by Terri Irwin

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

Quotes by Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Quotes by Steve Wynn

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Quotes by Stephen Dobyns

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Quotes by Sidney Altman

A film in Bollywood was truly unexpected.

Quotes by Shraddha Srinath

The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected.

Quotes by Shuji Nakamura

My career after 'Life Unexpected' took a really big dip, and I realized you have no control as an actor over the process of going to work.

Quotes by Shiri Appleby

I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in, and you have to stretch yourself to absorb it.

Quotes by Sheila Heti

I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.

Quotes by Shea Hembrey

The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

Quotes by Shaun Tan

The decision to use recognition as an on-the-spot bonus instead of merely pay increases is a fascinating one, because pay increases can create new mental anchors for how much the person feels happy earning, whereas the social recognition program is ongoing, unexpected, and harder to form a mental anchor around.

Quotes by Shawn Achor

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

Quotes by Sharon Creech

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Quotes by Seamus Heaney

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.

Quotes by Seamus Heaney

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Quotes by Seamus Heaney

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.

Quotes by Saul Steinberg

My career definitely took an unexpected change in direction when it came to 'Here Lies Love.'

Quotes by Ruthie Ann Miles

The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.

Quotes by Rod Rosenstein

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

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.

Quotes by Robert Morgan

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

Quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Quotes by Robert Harris

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Quotes by Robert Doisneau

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

Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.

Quotes by Rob Halford

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.

Quotes by Riz Ahmed

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

Quotes by Rick Mercer

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.

Quotes by Reem Acra

Whenever I work on a role, I always allow it to subconsciously take me to a place that is magical and unexpected, rather than consciously driving it to a place.

Quotes by Rasika Dugal

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.

Quotes by Peter C. Doherty

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

Quotes by Pete Postlethwaite

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Paulo Coelho

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected and not just do the same thing you've always seen. But of course, you're gonna see some of the same things you've seen before. It's part of the deal.

Quotes by Paula Patton

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.

Quotes by Paul Valery

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

Quotes by Paul Kane

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

Quotes by Paul D. Boyer

Wannabe was so huge. So big. So unexpected.

Quotes by Patrick Cox

I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action.

Quotes by Palmer Luckey

Basically i've done a few podcasts one is 'Prepare for the Unexpected' which is a guide to my life and how I deal with things and I've also done a 'Guide to Surving the Summer Festivals' too.

Quotes by Paddy McGuinness

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

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

Quotes by Norman Ralph Augustine

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

Quotes by Norman Foster

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

Quotes by Noomi Rapace

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.

Quotes by Nina Fedoroff

Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).

Quotes by N. Bhaskara Rao

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

Quotes by Muammar al-Gaddafi

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

Quotes by Mini Grey

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.

Quotes by Michael Spence

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

Quotes by Michael Mina

It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.

Quotes by Michael Malone

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

Quotes by Michael Giacchino

Unfortunately, in football, sometimes you think that things might go one way, but eventually, they take an unexpected turn or head in another direction.

Quotes by Massimiliano Allegri

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.

Quotes by Mary Matalin

When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.

Quotes by Mark Walport

The Wellcome Trust will retain a level of financial flexibility which will enable us to react quickly to unexpected developments and new ideas.

Quotes by Mark Walport

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.

Quotes by Marie Curie

I've always tried to control everything and every aspect of my life, and this is maybe the biggest lesson I've learnt with motherhood - you just can't control everything, and I'm much more relaxed now about unexpected changes and things that happen.

Quotes by Margherita Missoni

We always love actors taking unexpected turns.

Quotes by Marc Platt

Playing 16 years is completely unexpected and going through everything we went through. Big disappointments, huge wins, creating that type of union with the coaching staff, with the front office, with the staff, teammates. It's been an amazing journey, way beyond anything that can be expected.

Quotes by Manu Ginobili

I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.

Quotes by Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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

Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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.

Quotes by Linus Torvalds

I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Quotes by Liam Payne

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

Quotes by Leonardo DiCaprio

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Quotes by Leon Trotsky

If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.

Quotes by Lee Radziwill

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.

Quotes by Lee Daniels

I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.

Quotes by Laura van den Berg

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.

Quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie

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.

Quotes by Kristin Gore

To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.

Quotes by Kian Lawley

We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.

Quotes by Kevin Feige

It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.

Quotes by Kerri Green

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Quotes by Ken Hill

I think the takeaway is 'The Guest Book' is incredibly unexpected in every way. I know, when I was reading the script, I was surprised with every page turn. It's kind of an anthology, and it really pushed the envelope. It's a risk-taking show, and it's just a lot of fun.

Quotes by Kellie Martin

'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.

Quotes by Katie Hafner

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

Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

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.

Quotes by Kara Walker

I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.

Quotes by Karan Mahajan

I really liked the script of 'Alone.' I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the film, which I would want to watch as a viewer. I did not think like I was doing a horror film; I did not think in terms of genre. I decided on the basis of the script.

Quotes by Karan Singh Grover

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

Quotes by Julius Caesar

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

Quotes by Julius Caesar

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

Quotes by Julian Casablancas

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Quotes by Jose Marti

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

Quotes by Jojo Moyes

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

Quotes by John Tukey

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Quotes by John Locke

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

Quotes by John Hagel III

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.

Quotes by John Hagel III

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