Unexpected Developments Quotes

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things.

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner or later becoming the cause of other events and thus changing into a story or an adventure. Episodes are like land mines. The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may someday turn into a story that will prove fateful to you.

The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.

A lot could happen in a week. Just look at the last one.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.

I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

The Wellcome Trust will retain a level of financial flexibility which will enable us to react quickly to unexpected developments and new ideas.

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

Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).

You're never safe in 'Jane the Virgin;' that's what I'll say. You're never safe on a telenovela, that's for darn sure, and you're never safe on 'Jane the Virgin.'

You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it not existing. It's like a good book. What makes a good book is hard to say. I don't know. I just look for something that grabs me. I don't have a way of looking for a project, and I don't know many people that do. It's just year to year, and what's going around and what's there.

The best thing about the Nikita show is that there's so many layers. Even after the pilot, the next four have a twist. Don't think that you've seen it all or that you know it now, and that it's not going to have any more surprises. There's a surprise in every episode, so it's a lot to keep track of.