Quotes About Serendipity

I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.

There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'

It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.

I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Saccharin was discovered in 1879 when a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University found his bread extra sweet one night and figured that something from the lab must have followed him home. Incredibly, he set about to tasting nearly everything in his lab—and lived to find o-benzoic sulfimide—saccharin by any other name.

By many a happy accident.

fortuitous chance.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

It's when you meet someone

Doug cleared his throat and said, "Bonnie Raitt once told me coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Perhaps, she thought, in some parallel dimension, infinitely close and infinitely far away, another house existed alongside theirs, and in that other house lived fascinating people who did fascinating things and held fascinating talks over their dinner table—and though there was no doorway between the two places, one could occasionally stumble upon glimpses and echos of that other, brighter place, and for one single moment of miraculous serendipity, one could feel almost complete.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.