fortuitous event Quotes

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.

I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

I'm not even supposed to be here today.