Jamie Oliver Quotes

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

There is always room for coincidence.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Good luck needs no explanation.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

What's happened in my career is probably fate and good luck.

I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.