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Quotes About Coincidence

quattro persone che vi si trovavano a bordo si sentivano abbastanza inquiete, adesso che sapevano di essersi trovate insieme non di loro propria volontà, o per semplice coincidenza, ma per qualche incomprensibile bizzarria della fisica, quasi che i rapporti fra le persone fossero soggetti alle stesse leggi che governano i rapporti tra gli atomi e le molecole.
~ Douglas Adams
Anyone who even notices, let alone calls attention to the curious, but utterly coincidental and meaningless fact that every world on which the Guide has ever set up an accounting department has shortly afterward perished in warfare or some natural disaster, is liable to get sued to smithereens.
~ Douglas Adams
The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what accident means.
~ Douglas Adams
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
~ Agatha Christie
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
~ Agatha Christie
It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?
~ Agatha Christie
but the unlikely happened more often than one would be disposed to believe.
~ Agatha Christie
Nobody appeared to Miss Marple likely to be a murdered except possibly Mr.Caspar and that was probably foreign prejudice. Coincidence? thought Miss Marple meditatively, turning the word over in her mouth rather as a child might do to a certain lollipop to decide its flavour. Any coincidence, said Miss Marple to herself, is always worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
~ Agatha Christie
What an extraordinary coincidence." "How—a coincidence?" "That my mother should have made a will on the very day of her death!
~ Agatha Christie
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within 24 hours you nearly always come across it again
~ Agatha Christie
?çini çekti. Fakat ben ?ansa, kadere inan?r?m. Senin kaderinde benim yan?mda bulunmak ve benim affedilemeyecek bir hata i?lememe engel olmak...
~ Agatha Christie
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
~ Alan Alda
Dixon's car dovetailed,
~ Alan Jacobson
It wasn't always about bravery or some shining inner goodness. It could just as easily be about the position of your name in the alphabet, the chemistry of your blood, or
~ Alastair Reynolds
Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
~ Christopher Lee
Every time I look at my mobile phone before bed it seems to say 22:22. I thought that has to mean something in the future. Ironically when it was happening I ended up scoring 22 goals for Coventry.
~ Callum Wilson
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I came to photography by accident.
~ Eve Arnold
Everybody keeps saying what a lucky coincidence that 'Newsies' is happening when it is, with things like Occupy Wall Street.
~ Andrew Keenan-Bolger
Why should this girl have crossed Stephen's path, or indeed Stephen hers, if it came to that matter? Was not the world large enough for them both? Perhaps not — or perhaps the event of their meeting had already been written upon tablets of stone by some wise if relentless recording finger.
~ Radclyffe Hall
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 (9-11-02), the New York State Lottery winning number was 911.
~ Raymond Fowler
The winning New York Lottery number was 587 on November 12, 2001. This was the very day that Flight 587 crashed into the Queens section of New York.
~ Raymond Fowler
I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.
~ Stephen Sprouse
I searched the good music that I loved and found out that was all by Miguel! What a strange coincidence! I'm a massive fan of 'Sure Thing' by Miguel.
~ Taeyang