Chance Encounters Quotes

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

You can't look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don't look for it. Don't look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you.

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

At the end of the day, what you're able to work on is what comes by you, what sort of floats by you.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.

I have been a little lucky to get work. I know there are people who struggle a lot to get a film; I believe a lot in destiny. Things have fallen into place for me.

Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.

Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.

I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

I'm one of those people - I really feel that you can't go lookin' for love, love will come to you.

No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.