#unexpected

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. ↗

— Frank Dane

#company #does #drop #find #house

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#career #chosen #console #inconvenience #reflecting

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#everything #fact #mentally #outer #outer world

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. ↗

— Masaru Ibuka

#creativity #experience #looking #outside #own

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

#describe #fix #formulas #hopefully #i

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#advances #common #confidently #direction #endeavors

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ↗

— James Thurber

#happen #man #most #old #old age

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#cabinet #completely #form #his #i

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. ↗

— Paul Valery

#distant #fine #finite number #infinite #infinite number

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

#books #different #first #first time #i