Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

I never expected that this would be my life.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

… 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.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

I am all astonishment.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any way, shape, manner, or form.

My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

I went to a garage sale. 'How much for the garage' 'It's not for sale.'

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.