Libba Bray Quotes

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

There is always room for coincidence.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

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

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

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

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

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

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.