#predict

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#book #business #good #hard #kind

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories. ↗

— Celia Green

#determined #done #fairly #fashionable #most

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson. ↗

— Brit Hume

#been #bill #comfortable #conservative #democratic

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#american people #answers #grow #i #need

You can only predict things after they have happened. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#happened #only #predict #things #you

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#automobile #could #destroy #did #many

Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#bump #change #course #did #every

My predictions are notably inaccurate. ↗

— Robert Caro

#notably #predictions

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#going #leave #predict #someone #you