H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

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

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

Life is all about the unexpected.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

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

You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

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

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

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.

God, life changes faster than you think.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

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

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

I think you can only prepare yourself as much as you can, but no matter what, there will be curve balls. I had no idea I'd be taking a flight, landing, and heading straight to a radio station. I thought I might have time to curl my hair, have something to eat. No! You go right into things.

Life is full of surprises, and you need to be ready for everything.