Chance Quotes
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I think for Wes Anderson and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.
Owen Wilson
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Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.
Robert Rodriguez Chingon
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For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.
Carol Klein
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The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.
Bill Gates
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That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.
Chan Gailey
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Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.
Edwin Catmull
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I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.
Henry Selick
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We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.
Theresa May
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I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk
Celine Dion
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We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it
Tony Blair
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
Ernest Hemingway
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.
Wallace Stegner
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Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
William James
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I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
Jordan Spieth
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It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.
Nicole Kidman
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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I always love directing because it gives me a chance to be with everyone 24/7.
Aline Brosh McKenna
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It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.
Bob Jones, Sr.
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Life is too precious to be left to chance
Walter Moers
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I've only been a mom for not even two years yet, so I haven't had much of a chance. But boy do I wish I could have lunch with my girlfriends in the middle of the afternoon. I don't remember the last time I had lunch in the afternoon with my girlfriends.
Mila Kunis
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At least with tonight's game, it's setting up for the two games with Tampa Bay. At least we gave ourselves a chance.
Bob Hartley
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I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it
Sarah Dessen
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Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.
Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
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When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.
Daniel Hudson