Chance Outcome Quotes

It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such a determin'd side, and therefore I call that Chance, which is nothing, but want of Art.

Time to toss the dice

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.

It would depend on whether a judge of the Supreme Court came down heads or tails.

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

Filmmaking, I often like to say, is like Russian roulette. You never know what you'll get. The only thing you can do is find solace in the fact that, irrespective of the film's response, you work hard to make the money you do.