(115 quotes found)
“In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.”
William S. Burroughs
“A ''Bay Area Bisexual'' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.”
Woody Allen
“Coincidences are spiritual puns.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.”
Emma Bull
“A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l”
John Allen Paulos
“This isn't coincidence, there's no such thing”
Brandon Boyd
“It's no coincidence that three of the top five stock option traders in a recent trading contest were all ex-Marines.”
Robert Prechter Jr.
“Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.”
Wes Montgomery
“A `strange coincidence', to use a phrase / By which such things are settled nowadays.”
Lord Byron
“The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.”
Toba Beta
