- Nov 07, 2020
Chance Quotes
What opens up when you take one.
This set treats chance as both opportunity and loss, from skipping formal training to sidestep rejection to the freedom found in stepping over a line and taking a real risk. It connects to our Destiny quotes for readers drawn to that bigger-picture theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've already promised that I want to end my career where I started it, as a way of thanking those who gave me the chance to make my name in football. I want to have a spell there before I retire, but one that's enjoyable for me and for them, too.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can provide a benefit and make money, it's a chance for us to expand the population of customers we serve, expand the products we put in the marketplace, and reinvent ourselves going forward.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, on the rare chance that a celebrity comes to my property, I get real nervous.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.
- Good Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020