Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible. — Ben Casnocha
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. — Sidney Poitier
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out. — Bette Midler
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. — Aristotle
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. — Gary Gygax
All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things. — Stephanie Kwolek
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations. — Timothy Leary
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. — Chuck Palahniuk
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou
Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped. — Glenda Millard
I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them. — Ray Bradbury
Short Random Things Quotes
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere. — Robert Fulghum
What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together — Paul Smith
Inspiration comes from strange places sometimes. — Cliff Lerner
All physically possible things occur. — Naval Ravikant
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. — Norman Foster
Excellent things are rare. — Plato
The things that stand out are often the oddities. — Pierre Salinger
Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible. — Elon Musk
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing. — Michel Houellebecq
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Do Unexpected Things Quotes
Love can make you do things that you never thought possible — Phil Collins
What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative. — Shaun White
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like I do eventually want to be able to address more categories, like active or evening. — Rumi Neely
If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected. — Ali Larter
If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce off each other in interesting ways that you couldn't get otherwise, because you do things unexpectedly. — Momus
We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent. — Alison Gopnik
The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself. — William H. Macy
I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen. — Paula Patton
It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary. — Sarah Polley
Random Stuff Quotes
I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me. — Andy Samberg
Don't say random stuff. It makes me do random things — Onew
One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world. — Ed Droste
I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff. — Nico Muhly
Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis. — Bill Vaughan
Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day. — Rob Cantrell
If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff. — Ronald Breslow
I call my mom and talk to her about random stuff I saw on the Internet. That's kind of the only constant in my day-to-day. — Vanya Asher
I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff. — Sloane Stephens
It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people. — Quentin Dupieux
Random Thoughts Quotes
Creative thought must always contain a random component. — Gregory Bateson
Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had. — Neale Donald Walsch
Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else. — Derek Landy
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness. — Ben Casnocha
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information. — Edwin Thompson Jaynes
For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity. — Jon Glaser
It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun. — Trisha Yearwood
I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that. — Lance Henriksen
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law. — Mark B. Cohen
What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize I have spent whole days before this ink stone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head. — Yoshida Kenko
Random Quotes
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time. — Morgan Freeman
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow. — Jane Jacobs
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. — Frank Zappa
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. — Amelia Earhart
I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world. — Misha Collins
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. — Princess of Wales Diana
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. — John Von Neumann
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. — Dalai Lama
People will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine — Al-Ghazali
Odd Things Quotes
You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life? — Ben Feldman
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. — Clark Gable
Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad. — John Corbett
I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science. — James David Vance
When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps. — Alan Brennert
Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think. — Lauren Bacall
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. — Simone de Beauvoir
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. — Clark Gable
It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles. — Patricia A. McKillip
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. — Christopher Morley
Crazy Things Quotes
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking
If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion. — Maxine Waters
had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young. — Kenny Chesney
The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy. — Jim Jefferies
I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy. — Usain Bolt
You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself. — Nas
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. — Robert Bly
The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid. — Arsene Wenger
I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing. — Kel Mitchell
I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion. — John Mulaney
Silly Things Quotes
I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life. — Anton Chekhov
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. — Red Skelton
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. — Pam Brown
Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things. — Ralph Marston
I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though. — Norah Jones
When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change. — Kathleen Hanna
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars. — James M. Barrie
Silly Stuff Quotes
A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it. — George V. Higgins
This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating. — George W. Bush
I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away. — Andy Griffiths
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. — A. A. Milne
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway. — Tim Vine
There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly. — Liz Phair
I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested. — Tom Rush
I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again. — Bill Austin
I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said all this vulgar stuff. They would be like, 'Oh you're a silly boy - we know you're just playing. — Dane Cook
With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke. — Tim Vine
Unexpected Things Quotes
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. — Etty Hillesum
Black Swan theory tells us that things happen that were previously thought to be impossible – or never thought of at all. — Chris Voss
When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.' — Sandra Bullock
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. — C. S. Lewis
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong. — Lewis Howes
The first thing we ever filmed was, we had to eat off people's plates, like we just walked over and took something. We thought we would get punched. — Joe Gatto
Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected. — Faith Sullivan
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control. — Joan D. Vinge
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. — Carl Sandburg
Weird Things Quotes
I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength. — Melanie Martinez
When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships. — Tim Burton
That's where it makes things a little weird on me, because if I make them pay taxes on stuff then I look like a piece of sh-t, but if I pay taxes on it - on something that's already not really profitable. — MrBeast
Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800. — Eddie Redmayne
Weirdly enough, the best thing for my mental health was giving into my innate nature to work. And the most depressed I get is when I try to restrict it, like, 'I don't work weekends' or 'I don't work this day.' — MrBeast
Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow. — James Victore
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for. — David Shore
If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong. — Tom Upton
We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique. — Terri Windling
Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons. — Michael Shermer
Random acts of kindness is the worst thing like f**k off honestly. — PewDiePie
All probability is actually subjective. Uncertainty and randomness are subjective. You don’t know what the outcome’s going to be, so you roll a die. That’s because you individually do not know; it’s not because there is uncertainty there deeply in the universe. What we know about quantum theory is that all physically possible things occur. — Naval Ravikant
We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain. — Amy Purdy
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. — Bryce Courtenay
People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do). — Ray Dalio
If you think about the role of randomness in the world, there's so much that's not in your control. But one thing that's within your control is the quality of your output. You should have a simple goal of putting out a product that's the highest quality you can. — Howard S. Marks
One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting. — Nick Cave
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. — John Polkinghorne
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature. — Ashlee Simpson
I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is the main thing about the beauty of life; that you don't cram. And not only beauty, but also the fact that there is never a concrete thing in life. — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method. — John Von Neumann
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve. — Henry Miller
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. — Edward Furlong
The main thing I’m into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I’m really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky. — Squarepusher
Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all. — Jeanette Winterson
If I liked an idea, even slightly, I would throw some money at it. I've had a lot of random things not work out that people don't know about. — Rob Dyrdek
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk. — Jeff Bezos
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day. — Salman Rushdie
I make the music as if I was scoring it. I do my best that the sounds will fit the theme of that track, but then there are many other times where it can be random and things happen for no reason, just for fun! A storyline can let me organize changes in the music better, like acts in a play. — DJ QBert
I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody. — Paul van Dyk
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons. — Kurt Vonnegut
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future. — Alan Moore
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior. — John Carmack
Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds... That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore. — DJ Quik
Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff. Rock n’ roll is closest thing I’ve got to a spiritual power. It’s been the higher voice in my life and it’s never let me down. — John Waite
I don't want to be one of those people that's constantly promoting myself on Twitter. I think the fun thing about Twitter is being able to share all the little random things that happen in my life. — Bridgit Mendler
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting. — Jimmy Wales
Random things make me laugh. — Sandra Bernhard
Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you. — Michelle Ryan
Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it. — Donald Barthelme
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. — Mark Stevens
There's no way of preventing the media from covering attacks as huge events and until the media stops doing that, they will be huge in people's consciousness, and we have to treat these things differently from the smaller random acts of violence. — Karan Mahajan
No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time. — Marilyn vos Savant
It's relatively easy to create an ambiguous character. Any conglomeration of likable and unlikeable traits, chosen at random, will result in an ambiguous character. Getting an audience to deeply identify with a character, on the other hand, is one of the hardest things in the world to do. — Matt Bird
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books. — Tara Bray Smith
The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me. — Chris Evans
It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay. — Matt Emmons
I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness. — Heidi Murkoff
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