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The Great Gatsby
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Unexpected Quotes

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

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

– Carrie Underwood

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they’re not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.

– Bill James

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

– Antonio Damasio

We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of ‘Lost.’

– Carlton Cuse

I like feminine suits with unexpected details.

– Aslaug Magnusdottir

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

– Chris Van Allsburg

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.

– Brad Bird

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

– Anna Sui

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

– Alexander McCall Smith

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.

– Bo Burnham

Isn’t it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it’s most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment?

– Chip Conley

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.

– Alexander Alekhine

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

– Danny McBride

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn’t feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

– Douglas Coupland

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

– Edward Witten

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

– Paul Watson

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

– Cynthia Kenyon

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

– Norman Ralph Augustine

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.

– Eddie Rickenbacker

As a writer, I try to appeal to the ‘elusive boy audience’ the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

– Marie Lu

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

– Francis Bacon

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

– Norman Foster

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

– Dante Hall

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

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

– Edward Witten

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

– Ellie Kemper

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.

– Michael Mina

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.

– Dorothea Dix

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

– Felix Baumgartner

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