Walter Pater Quotes

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

I think timing is everything.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?

I think everything happens at exactly the time it's supposed to.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

I don't really believe in coincidence.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

Things happen when they're supposed to happen.

Life, and the world, sometimes just kinda click, and things just happen. You're chasing it, but it finds you at the same time.

My mum used to always say to me, 'What's meant for you won't pass you by,' and it's true. If I didn't get something, it wasn't meant for me.

I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.

Sometimes there's these things in life that hit at the right time, and it connects with people in the right way.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time and play with Michael Jordan.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

I don't really push myself upon people. I don't have that. When it meets and things fall in line, it's meant to happen. It's happened that way. I just try to do my best and do my work, and then it falls in line.

Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.