Top 210 Unexpected Quotes

Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected sound.
Amber Rudd
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Jamais Cascio
Doing things outside of the traditional fashion gives me the opportunity to bring a fresh eye to unexpected markets.
Cynthia Rowley
Feelings come at really unexpected moments to all of us, and they come so fast.
Vittoria Ceretti
Some of the best moments I’ve ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.
Greg Rucka
Computers can’t find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data.
Debra Fischer
A reveal should be unexpected and clever.
Violet Chachki
I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there tha

I haven’t heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden there’s an unexpected drop in PCs.
Daniel Morgan
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.
Rasika Dugal
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It’s called Four Blind Mice and it’s a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
James Patterson
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.
Dries van Noten
For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life’s experience in some semblance of its complexity – for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.
Claire Messud
Glenn’s passing was so unexpected and has left me with a very heavy heart filled with sorrow. He was so young and still full of amazing genius. He was an extremely talented songwriter, arranger, leader, singer, guitarist – you name it – and Glenn could do it and create ‘Magic’ on the spot.
Don Felder
Things always evolve and change on location, especially due to the nature of travel and the waves. A lot of unexpected things happen. Often we get lucky, but we also find ourselves scrambling a lot, especially when we are looking for waves in the remote spots of those locations.
Taylor Steele
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Lalla Ward
I love being unpredictable and unexpected.
Cody Simpson
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Edward Witten
I don’t really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.
Joanna Coles
I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
Lee Daniels
You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.
Andrew Bird
Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.
Marcel Wanders
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or ‘convulsive’ beauty – beauty in the service of liberty.
Jeff Vandermeer
Working on ‘Open All Hours’ had some unexpected perks, not least the attractions of the canteen at the BBC’s rehearsal studios in West London.
David Jason
AI has been making tremendous progress in machine translation, self-driving cars, etc. Basically, all the progress I see is in specialised intelligence. It might be hundreds or thousands of years or, if there is an unexpected breakthrough, decades.
Andrew Ng
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
Jane Hirshfield
You’d always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that’s when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
Barbara Lynn
We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It’s unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It’s all art in the end. We aren’t making records because we have to; it’s because it’s what we want to express.
Victoria Legrand
Gordon Brown doesn’t often spring surprises. He’s usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.
Grant Shapps
I think once you do the unexpected, and you take the viewers to a position of discomfort about being able to rely on characters surviving, then it does completely affect the way in which the drama is viewed.
Jed Mercurio
It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.
Alvin E. Roth
Unfortunately, in football, sometimes you think that things might go one way, but eventually, they take an unexpected turn or head in another direction.
Massimiliano Allegri
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.
Ralph Marston
I’m not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
Norman Foster
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it’s based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky – to think of serendipitous as smart.
Ethan Zuckerman
Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.
Chris Harrison
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.
W. H. Auden
If you’re making a smaller movie, you’re almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.
Brad Anderson
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
Lynn Abbey
The biggest thing I lost when I left religion was that

The biggest thing I lost when I left religion was that sense of community and the culture. It was an unexpected kind of free-falling. When I was in it, I didn’t understand how much the community was a part of my life.
Ari Shaffir
Everyone’s opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.
Charlie Brooker
The idea is to offset sexy dresses with a dash of the unexpected and have fun with fashion and accessories.
Nandita Mahtani
To me that is what the Odyssey is all about, it’s about being in the world and unexpected challenges and dangers are thrown at you.
Bettany Hughes
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.
Pete Postlethwaite
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
Rick Mercer
If there is anything that my life has taught me is that life is unexpected and you’re not always going to know the cards that you’re going to be dealt.
Jay Williams
Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
Candice Olson
Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.
Elizabeth Warren
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
I’m not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
James Purefoy
Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.
William Regal
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new – and sometimes unexpected – directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.
Drew Gilpin Faust
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
Alan Stern
I originally went up for a role on the spinoff show, ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ and that led me to audition for Wally West in ‘The Flash’. I enjoy auditioning in general, but this was a particularly fun process because it was so unexpected.
Keiynan Lonsdale
No matter the circumstances are that you lose someone, nobody’s truly prepared. Steve’s accident was so unexpected – it was extremely challenging.
Terri Irwin
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I’d do little unexpected performances.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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.
Saul Steinberg
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places – up and coming cities that aren’t necessarily boom markets.
Anna Sui
The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.
Alejo Carpentier