Unexpected Impact Quotes

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

It was the first car accident I had ever been in. It shakes you up a little bit.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

A voice that was never wanted has become a voice for so many people who don’t have one.

I think my life dramatically shifted when I met Lucas [Goodman] and it wasn't even planned. I had a very clear vision of what I was going to do.

When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.

I got hit in the face with quarters overseas.

You never know when you lend somebody a hand, what that means for the rest of their lives.

A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.

I had no idea that we were saying anything important until they told us to stop.

The film 'Back to the Future' certainly did a lot to put me where I am today, and I did not foresee that. I just was hoping the film would open successfully, the first one, but it's gone way beyond what I think most of us have imagined.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

I think that if something's really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it's supposed to be enjoyed.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

You never know which people will affect your life.