Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you’ll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken. – Graydon Carter
Sometimes random things that you wouldn’t think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, you can say, ‘Let’s go pick some flowers’ or ‘There’s a snail. Let’s investigate that.’ – Heidi Klum
When I was a kid – and I don’t know why, it’s the most random thing – I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids. – Haylie Duff
For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions. – Gretchen Rubin
It is true that the gameplay for ‘Orcs&Elves’ was designed around the limitations of mobile phones, and that if we were starting completely from scratch for the DS, we would probably do things a bit differently, but the bottom line is that when we sit a random DS player down with the game, they have a lot of fun. – John Carmack
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
If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle? – Christine Pelosi
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing. – Barry Ritholtz
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. – Brian Eno
It was not until I began to write a book called ‘Light Years’ that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book. – James Salter
It’s bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another ‘Carrie’ to compare it to, it’s rough. – Judy Greer
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I’m writing on the piano. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
Just being in the military, you’re so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don’t think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps. – Adam Driver
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. – Chuck Palahniuk
Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you’re actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something. – Amy Poehler
I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever – ‘Ultraman’ and ‘Speed Racer,’ stuff like that. – Adrian Tomine
A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria’s Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET. – Annalee Newitz
Oh, I sat by Grumpy Cat once. You know that cat everyone is obsessed with? That’s pretty random. She’s not allowed to be touched. Are you kidding? You can’t put a cat next to me and expect me not to touch it. – Chrissy Teigen
The math works. Over the course of a season, there’s some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There’s so much data that you can predict: individual players’ performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off. – Billy Beane
If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame. – Alison Gopnik
I’ve evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story – my publisher, Random House, has urged that. – Alan Furst
I don’t like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, ‘You’re the next character.’ People think that’s what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I’ve never done that at all. – Chris Lilley
At times, when I reach my saturation point, I go to some random place and throw my phone away. – Arijit Singh
I’ve gone up to a random guy in a grocery store before and said, ‘Hi, I think you’re cute. Are you single?’ I’m not smooth. I just put it out there. – Autumn Reeser
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? – A. B. Yehoshua
It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. – Albert Camus
I think that my ideas of the world are that it’s random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that. – Alexei Sayle
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up ‘seven’ is still a function of random luck. – Barry Ritholtz
I often do crazy siren noises, or, like, a high-pitched dolphin, just to make sure that all my range is there. I make random noise and blurt out random sounds, to make sure I get rid of any bad nerves. I want to make sure to feel as confident as possible. – Ella Henderson
If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they’d have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown. – Chris Morris
