Alan Moore Quotes

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

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

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

In every one of my scientific expeditions, the most significant findings were things I didn’t expect and was not originally what we were studying.

… minor incidents—the kind you can never really foresee—combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

Almost every achievement contains within its success the seeds of a future problem.

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

Sometimes, you don't know what's going to happen to your character until the night before you shoot the scene. So, sometimes, you get a great big surprise at the very last minute, which is scary sometimes. You don't have a whole lot of time to prepare.

Life has a great deal up its sleeve.

Life has many twists and turns.

I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

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

Life has a way of creeping up on us.

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.

There are bombshells that happen in court. Especially when the defense doesn't share discovery of material the way the prosecution does, and so surprises always happen. Things pop out without warning.

Behind bars, everyone's an inmate. Everybody has their skeletons; everybody has their story.