Tom Petty Quotes

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

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.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

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.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

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

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.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

Certain projects find you at the right time.