Lynda Barry Quotes

Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

I never want anything to be too predictable.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

I wanna keep people on their toes, and that's just kind of how we've always operated.

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.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

I always say expect the unexpected!

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.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Expect the unexpected.

One of the main reasons that I love doing what I do is because it's unpredictable and I don't know what's coming next. When you're creating work, it's up to you whether it's an exciting experience or not.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.