Jerry Spinelli Quotes

You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur Miller has died. Or you can come back from a job on the Isle of Man to be told by your agent you're going straight out to South Africa on another shoot. There's not even any time to wash your pants.

There are no rules in live television.

When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.

Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

I like when life is sort of spontaneous. I like the unexpected. I'm comfortable in that!

Life is anything but predictable.

Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.

You don't know where you're going to be tomorrow. It's kind of hard to plan a future.

We can never fully plan our future, so don't try.

My favorite nights out are the most random ones - when they start at a bowling alley and end up someplace you don't even know where. Those are my favorite - the most random ones that you don't plan, when you meet up with friends, and you're supposed to do something and end up doing something else.

I don't make plans for my future. I have learned that you cannot predict what will happen.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script.