#expected

The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#definitely #expected #feel #hit #i

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

#artist #artists #best #educator #evolutions

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#author #charmed #expected #find #natural

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

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#i #looking #never #seen #things

I have always... expected a lot from myself. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#expected #i #lot #myself

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#found #i #just #kind #less

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#expected #give #great #gymnastics #i

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#always #could #expected #expensive #had

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#christian #come #ever #expected #face