Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mel Brooks

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

Gavin DeGraw

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

John Lasseter

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

George Lucas

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

Emily Murphy

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

Elizabeth Gaskell

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

Joe Biden

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

Logan Pearsall Smith

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

Taye Diggs

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

Robert Holden

Committing to happiness increases your chances for success.

Richard Dawkins

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

Richard Dawkins

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

Viggo Mortensen

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

Rene Descartes

If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.

Sally Field

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.

Robert Southwell

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Steve Guttenberg

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Vaclav Havel

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

Stephen King

Bad chances were better than no chances.

Shawn Johnson

There's always a chance. Anything can happen.

Ziggy Marley

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

Warren Buffett

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can

Virginia Woolf

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

Wayne Rooney

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

Winston Churchill

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

Sarah Silverman

You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Every day we’re given chances to embrace the new.

Wayne Newton

I love taking chances.

Sarah Dessen

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

Sandra Day O'Connor

This chance will stand before you only once.

Robert Silverberg

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.