Earl Derr Biggers Quotes

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.

I never in a million years would have thought I would end up with Golden State.

I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.

It's nice to squash people's expectations.

In football, you never know what can happen.

One never knows how a bout is going to pan out and even in last 2-3 seconds things can change.

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually.

We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

One wild card was yet to be played.