Eric Bogosian Quotes

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

You never know what's going to happen throughout the course of a season.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Life is full of surprises.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.