Annie Proulx Quotes

The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

It would depend on whether a judge of the Supreme Court came down heads or tails.

it is … not a good idea to resort to tossing coins.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.