Serendipitously Quotes

#1. Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.

Janet Morris

#2. ... you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

John Barth

#3. I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Nate Lowman

#4. Mybike handling qualities include on-a-rail tracking, almost as if the headset were too tight, and a high-strung, joyous agility. Frame geometry and construction integrity combine with the rider's caffeine consumption level to produce serendipitously disparate handling characteristics.

Maynard Hershon

#5. I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Angela Sarafyan

#6. There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

Serj Tankian

#8. Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

Mira Nair

#9. There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

Lucinda Williams

#10. It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.

Kendall Schmidt

#11. Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?' I asked ...
'Because I love them so much.

Ruta Sepetys

#12. In love, it's because people want something that doesn't exist, at least abundantly, people tend to put on false masks imitating the non-existant.

Daya Kudari

#13. His lips met mine and just like the stupid little fish that I was, I sank my teeth right into the hook.

Jettie Woodruff

#14. What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.

Catherine Brady

#15. Let your discomfort and pain push you into something new.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

Sarah Zettel

#17. Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

Michael J. Saylor

#18. I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

James Gray

#19. I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.

Logan Marshall-Green

#20. In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house.

Tony Fernandes