Nas Quotes

In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.

Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

There is always room for coincidence.

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

I got lost but look what I found.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the craziest thing of all.

The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Just because we have made a bad commitment doesn't mean we should make the mistake of trying to carry it out.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

I never imagined that Hamilton would be turned into a musical, much less a hip-hop musical. I think I can safely say that that's the last thing I would have expected.

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.