Chance Quotes - Page 41

You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.

Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That [kissing her co-stars]s not in my contract!

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

You have to make your own chances.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.