Daniel Woodrell Quotes

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

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

Nobody knows what the future holds.

I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that messes everything up and makes you rethink everything.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

I'm not surprised by much in this league. You see and hear all kinds of stuff, you never know what can happen.

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.

In football, sometimes things happen that are outside of your control, leading the club to make decisions.

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.

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

The things that transpired in my life, they didn't happen in the order that they're supposed to, or are ideal. Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.

A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?