Naomi Klein Quotes

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

I want people to be surprised.

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.

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

I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.

I didn't even apply. There was no warning.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

This is the most unheard of thing that I have ever heard of

I never thought they would come

I never anticipated seeing 40.

I think it is OK to surprise people.

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

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

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.

So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.

Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

There's no way to move without making waves.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.