Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.
What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.
But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
I want to show the world that there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life. . . after diagnosis
I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction. . . It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way
The unexpected always happens.
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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.
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive. . . The unexpected is usually not received at all.
It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.
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.
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.
The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things, and we have really imaginative, smart writers - I can't wait to see what they make with the ingredients they have on hand.
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with unexpected complexity; some of it asked for, and some of it not. It becomes richer, I find.
Obviously, when you're in theater, you have to be in character. You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be able to react to things that don't necessarily happen every night, or aren't supposed to happen every night. And you have to react to it in character. In six months, 192 shows, those things did happen. And the experience of that, the ability to stay in character, I feel like I've learned a great deal.
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.