Chance Quote by Tom Shippey Download Open image “While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.” — Tom Shippey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chance Doe Giving Guarantees Luck Offers Persistence
One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I never rely on luck. It's all my own choice. It leads me to the future. — Kagura Micazuki Fairy Tail Copy Share Image
Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders. — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that’s an evasion. It’s actually… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it. — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“Why could Tolkien not be more like Sir Thomas Malory, asked [Edwin] Muir, in the third Observer review of those cited above, and give… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm… — Stipe Miocic Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
