Margaret Oliphant Quotes

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

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

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.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

So much in politics is luck and timing.

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.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

When you talk to people in retrospect, they always say the casting was a no-brainer, but nothing really is. You have to have so many things line up. I'm very grateful that it worked out.

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

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

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.

Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

So much in life came down to timing.

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

The right timing is not always our timing.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

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

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.