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Quotes About Random

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
~ Dan Rather
Lots of kitchens have a "catch-all" drawer. What's in here? It's always a surprise. Soy sauce packets from carryout, rubber bands, pennies, matches, pushpins, a stray refrigerator magnet. I'm only going to say this once: No. Junk. Drawer. Do I make myself clear?
~ Peter Walsh
Aleatory uncertainty is something you not only don't know; it is unknowable.
~ Philip Tetlock
I've always been vocal in my matches, and I've always made a lot of noises, a lot of random noises.
~ Rhea Ripley
The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.
~ Chris Evans
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
~ Paul Kantner
I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the most are the songs that have been on my computer the longest.
~ Tom Junod
I didn't realize he was a drunk driver,' I said. 'The other superheroes inferred it was just a regular, random guy you were trying to force a taco onto. But still' - I indicate the nearby crack dealers - 'the Taco Incident surely demonstrates how things can inadvertently spiral.
~ Jon Ronson
T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.
~ Jonathan Franzen
H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]
~ Jonathan Franzen
Katz could see that Patty, in the seemingly random life-meanderings that Walter had just described to him, had in fact deliberately been trampling symbols in a cornfield, spelling out a message unreadable to Walter at ground level but clear as could be to Katz at great height. IT'S NOT OVER, IT'S NOT OVER.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I had no wish to take any determined route on that stroll; I attempted, rather, a maximum latitude of probabilities in order not to wear out expectation with an obligatory anticipation of a single one of them. I was able, within the imperfect limits of possibility, to walk, as they say, at random. I accepted, without any conscious prejudice but that of avoiding the wider avenues and streets, the most obscure invitations of chance.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Love and the years- Love is a thing that's gathered, chance by chance, Out of life's ever-changing random dance.
~ A. Norman Jeffares
Every evolutionary pathway is unique, and while all living beings are related, how each one came to be is a different story, with different pressures driving selection, and random changes in DNA providing the template from which variation, selection and evolutionary change can occur. Evolution is blind, mutation is random, selection is not.
~ Adam Rutherford
A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.
~ Piet Hein
The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate.
~ Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne
You see, the universe has no meaning and there was no purpose in my being born into it. I never listen to conversations which begin, 'We are all put into the world for...' because we weren't put into the world. We just happened and we have no purpose and that's fine.
~ Quentin Crisp
My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
~ Yuliya Snigir
I mean, French pharmacies are, I love walking in and just, I buy a lot of random stuff. There's more pharmacies than bakeries, even in Paris.
~ Camille Rowe
Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it's funny, because it's so completely random to me. It's senseless.
~ Joss Whedon
Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it?
~ Judy Blume
He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.
~ Walter Kirn
Life is too precious to be left to chance
~ Walter Moers
We made mad love Shadow love Random love And abandoned love Accidentally like a martyr The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder
~ Warren Zevon