Shaggy Quotes

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

There is always room for coincidence.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

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

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

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

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.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

Heaven alone knows why I won it.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Sometimes things just happen in the moment.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

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.