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The Great Gatsby
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Unexpected Quotes

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

– Oscar Wilde

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it’s a really big swing that I don’t know if I’m going to connect on.

– Rob Lowe

What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, ‘Oh, she couldn’t possibly be that.’

– Ruth Negga

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.

– Paul Kane

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

– Robert Baden-Powell

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

– Timbaland

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.

– Tom Robbins

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

– Tim O’Brien

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

– Takeshi Kitano

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

– Sugar Ray Leonard

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

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn’t know the original, you’d lose what was funny.

– Tom Stoppard

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

– Steve Wynn

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.

– Sidney Altman

I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.

– Thomas McGuane

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.

– Stephen Dobyns

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.

– William Ernest Henley

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