Good Chance Quotes - Page 3

• It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

  Paul McCartney

  Teenage, Writing, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

  Jay Leno

  Defense, Chance, Week

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• I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Class, Long, Saws

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

  Meg Cabot

  Letting Go, Writing, Needs

  "Exclusive Meg Cabot Interview!". Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Missing, Hot

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• If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!

  Karen Scalf Linamen

  Who Cares, Chance, Whining

  Karen Scalf Linamen (2002). “Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt”

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• I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.

  David Cunliffe

  Thinking, Want, Chance

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• Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, People, Racing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.

  Sterling Marlin

  Sports, Strong, Fall

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• President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yesterday, President, Reform

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• If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

  Henry Rollins

  Character, Voice, Cartoon

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

  Peter Meinke

  Writing, Long, Chance

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• I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there`s a good chance you can get Neil himself.

  Warren Zevon

  Song, Writing, Play

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• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  David Edward

  Self, Common Sense, People

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• If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

  Edmund Hillary

  Achievement, Groups, Looks

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• There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

  Brandon Thomas

  Screw Ups, Chance, Very Good

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• I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Might, Chance, Cricket

  "Tendulkar leaving the youngsters behind - Harbhajan". www.espncricinfo.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, People, Luck

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• Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.

  Mark Cuban

  Ideas, Firsts, Steps

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.

  Bill Watterson

  Years, Long, Together

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I think cycling is a sport where you cannot be discouraged easily you have to keep going back at it. The first few times you race or try to get into the sport there is a good chance you might find yourself off the back.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, Thinking, Cycling

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• If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

  Johan Cruijff

  Running, Player, Two

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• There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Chance, Strings

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6293, Delphi Classics

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• There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Jobs, Sky, Motorcycle

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• I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

  Candace Bushnell

  Chance, Married

  "Candace Bushnell, ‘Sex And The City’ Author, Talks Divorce, Single Life". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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