#unexpected

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

A brick could be used to represent no, and a blanket could be used to represent yes. If I ask you, “Will you sleep with me?” I expect you to run to the bedroom, get naked, and get under the blanket. Whatever you do, do not reach for the brick.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

A brick could be used as a cock block. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#american #american people #been #catastrophe #condolences

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brief #duration #enjoyed #flower #found

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#able #across #any #ask #ceo

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. ↗

— Steven Levy

#computers #debugging #history #never #period

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#away #between #day #lies #minute

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#disorder #disrupted #expects #order #prepared

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#believe #convulsive #i #i do #idea