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Quotes About Random

Are you fangalicious? -Jess, a random blogger I could never be as fangalicious as you'd want me to be.-Fang
~ James Patterson
But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.
~ Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
I'm not a Starbucks guy. I'm a Dunkin Donuts guy, but I like to pay for the coffee of the other folks behind me in line. It typically costs me less than $10, and makes the other people feel good, but more importantly, it makes me feel so good, and random acts of kindness change the world one person at a time.
~ Robert Kraft
I remember going backstage on a random night and Kanye goes, 'Ayo Premier, I'm about to drop an album called 'College Dropout' and I'm rapping on the whole thing. And as I soon it drop it's gonna go double platinum.' I looked at him like, 'That's a bold statement to make if you never rapped before.'
~ DJ Premier
I could almost hear their voices asking, 'Why here, why now?' But of course they could have just as easily been asking, 'Why not here, why not now?' It would not occur to this crowd that there were no special rules involved; it would not occur to them, even though they were a crowd of imaginative artists, that the whole thing was simply a matter of random, purposeless terror that converged upon a particular place at a particular time for no particular reason.
~ Thomas Ligotti
as any roulette player can tell you, past performance has no bearing on future random outcome. So
~ Tim Dorsey
I think it was Denoon who said that the closest you can come in life to experiencing free will is when you do things at random. There is no free will. Everything is still determined when you make random choices, but you stop noticing.
~ Norman Rush
Kenangan-kenangan ini tidak berhubungan satu sama lain, kecuali bahwa semuanya memiliki keterkaitan dengan cinta. Ka tahu betul bahwa kehidupan adalah rangkaian tanpa arti dari berbagai kejadian acak.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Love is random; fear is inevitable.
~ Orson Scott Card
He dreamed, as human beings always dream—random firings of memory and imagination that the unconscious mind tries to put together into coherent stories. Bean rarely paid attention to his own dreams, rarely even remembered that he dreamed at all. But
~ Orson Scott Card
Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins in night to their destinies in dust and nothingness.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mi sono sempre chiesta se la piega presa dalla nostra vita esiste fin dall'inizio se invece la vita è fatta di eventi casuali nei quali individuiamo un filo solo a posteriori
~ Cormac McCarthy
A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.
~ Cory Doctorow
Perhaps only this: that the greatest danger in life is certainty. Yes, I do believe that. Our last redoubt in the world is wonder. Wonder and unknowing. Now and then a random detail will stir me to faint recognitions: a row of dead beetles in the grass; the chapped knees of some dowager on the S-bahn. Tantalizing signs reminding me that infinity billows out from every moment. That's when I lean in, sniff the air, cock my ears like a foxhound- and listen.
~ Cristina García
Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.
~ Walter Isaacson
There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat," he said. "That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.
~ Walter Isaacson
It was a copy of James Joyce's Dubliners his brother had been reading. He opened it and began to read at random, articulating the words very carefully in a whisper, paying elaborate attention to the form of each word but none to what he was reading.
~ Charles Jackson
Sagittarius — They don't mean to interrupt, they just randomly remember things and get excited.
~ Internet meme
The term "target of opportunity" is also used to describe victims who are randomly slain by a serial murderer simply because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
~ Harold Schechter
We make our meek adjustments,Contented with such random consolationsAs the wind depositsIn slithered and too ample pockets.
~ Hart Crane
listen, i appreciate the story. i get that he's a goody guy. but these audits are random. it's not personal. see, that's where you're wrong, the man said. everything you do in life is personal.
~ Heather Cochran
Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.
~ Laurie Nadel
Bello como el encuentro fortruito de una máquina de coser y un paraguas en una mesa de disección.
~ Lautreamont Ducasse Isidore