Pete Conrad Quotes

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

I never thought 'Sodapop Curtis' would announce my retirement. I always thought I would be the one to announce it. I'm a huge fan of the movie, but that caught me way off guard. I can't explain it.

There's not been one normal thing in my life.

To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.

I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

A bolt from the blue.

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.

In 1964 something totally unexpected happened. I got a job I enjoyed.