Gail Simone Quotes

I never predict anything, and I never will.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Everybody believes in chance.

I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

History is totally unpredictable.

It's a kind of Russian roulette.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

My life is a bit unpredictable.

You cannot plan what is going to happen. You cannot plan your life.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.