Martha Plimpton Quotes

Everything in my life has happened exactly that way it's supposed to, in almost a scary way.

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

If it's meant to be for you, it's going to happen.

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.

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

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

Certain projects find you at the right time.

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

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.

Things happen when they're supposed to happen.

My mum used to always say to me, 'What's meant for you won't pass you by,' and it's true. If I didn't get something, it wasn't meant for me.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

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

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

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

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

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

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.