Unexpected Rise Quotes

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

The NBA? Never in my wildest dreams when I was playing in Division III basketball.

If Bernie Sanders hasn't been able to draw a contrast with Hillary Clinton, why is he doing so well, a guy - most people never heard of this fellow before this year.

Look at a player like Divock Origi. No one was talking about the guy and then suddenly he becomes a hero.

Sweet But Psycho' blew up pretty much overnight after my 10-year struggle. It's hilarious when people say it was overnight, because it was not overnight.

Music was never a priority for me, and I seriously do not know how I got so big.

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

I made four pictures before 'The Graduate,' and nothing ever happened. And after that - wow!

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

Fans of these freshmen is about to get iffy while this youngin that you doubted is about to get busy.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

Cocktail' happened overnight for me. I didn't have the time to think about it, I suddenly got into films without even realising what I was doing.

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

I think it's really strange for somebody that's probably never been in the public eye. All of a sudden I was 'big time' - boom, it all just happened.

When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I was so happy. Especially as I was just a guest star in the pilot. But once it got picked up, they made me a regular cast member.

I started wrestling when I was 35, but my career didn't take off until I was 40.

We were extremely lucky that someone discovered us as a band and that we got to experience a type of cinderella story.