Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

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

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.

All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

I came into the world at the right time.

The world shows us what we need at a specific moment in time.

I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

The right timing is not always our timing.

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.

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.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

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

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

I think timing is everything.