Greg Kurstin Quotes

I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would have bet money that Trump would not have been the Republican nominee, and I would have been wrong and I certainly would have bet money that he wouldn't win the election.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.

I always tell people this; when they say, 'What's gonna happen here? What's gonna happen here?' I always tell people, 'You think you want to know, but you really don't. You want to experience the event as it happens on TV.'

I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn't anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor - Brexit.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

There's never been a time in my life where you had the names the United States and political uncertainty in the same sentence.

When Trump took office, it didn't matter if you'd covered the White House for 10 years or 10 minutes. No one knew what to expect. We would be told about press conferences a few minutes before.

When it's a live performance, anything can happen.

My life is a bit unpredictable.

I just want to see what life's going to throw my way. So far, it's been very unexpected. I'm kinda on a roller coaster and want to enjoy that.