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The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.
I've found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
You can always imagine the unexpected and strive for it. You may never get there, but it's always a good thing to have.
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.
I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
The goal for me, always, is to have fun, and to kind of intentionally be unexpected and go against the dress code a little bit.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.
The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.
Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.
Having the chance to model was completely unexpected. I wasn't very girly, but it was an adventure and it changed my life for ever.
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.
Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.