Chance Quotes
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Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.
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I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.
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I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
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You got to be able to love again. You got to give everybody a fair chance. Everybody deserves a fair chance. I'm talking about building that wall, coming out of a relationship and feeling like, well, I'm going to hold back. You turn into your ex. When you find a person that's worth letting your wall down , and you feel it in your stomach, just don't fight it. Just let it happen.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.
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I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.
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I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
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Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
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Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
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Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't.
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I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first.
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People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.
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In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
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Your hater is your future fan in a way. Cause when it's different they don't really take to it at first, but after you look back on it you get a chance to reflect on it.
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I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.
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Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
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No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.
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It would be nice to give us a chance to get the ball rolling and get a little confidence.
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It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
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By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
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I'm excited I had a chance to play on the best team ever. With the world championship on the line, I was really proud I did a good job.
