If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
Norman Foster
At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you... →
John Hagel III
Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.
Dante Hall
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
Robert Harris
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Seamus Heaney
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and... →
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus
Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
Ken Hill
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected... →
Jane Hirshfield