Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

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.

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

I am a great believer in luck.

So much in politics is luck and timing.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

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

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

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

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

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

Few people realize that luck is created.

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.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.