I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down… Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time. – Ellie Goulding
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it. – P. J. O’Rourke
To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it’s waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving. – Gregory Benford
I’ve been asking myself: ‘Why put together these things – CDs, albums?’ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists’ part. – David Byrne
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random. – Donald Rumsfeld
I don’t like accidental success. It’s what Bill Gates calls ‘random,’ a term he uses with the opposite of respect. – Masayoshi Son
I actually grew up watching ‘Survivorman’ and Bear Grylls. I know that pine needles are a good source of vitamin C and just random facts from watching the stuff. – Nick Robinson
I don’t like girls who are shy, and I get a lot of random girls, like when I go to the mall, none of them want to come up to me, like are they scared of me! They’re all bug eyed. – Mitchel Musso
After Ann Godoff, who was editor-in-chief at Random House, left and went to Viking, I got to know Viking and the people there, and liked them very much. I also found a wonderful editor there, Wendy Wolf. It’s a very congenial press. – Elaine Pagels
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. – Douglas Coupland
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. – Deborah Copaken Kogan
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you’re going to look towards the new generation, then of course you’re going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming. – Malcolm Mclaren
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock ‘n’ roll movie. – Edward Furlong
The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar. – Francis Crick
Everyone calls me ‘the male Jennifer Lawrence,’ because I just say things because I’m random, and I do things and I don’t care what people think. I think she’s hilarious. – Colton Haynes
I haven’t done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation. – Felicity Kendal
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. – Franz Kafka
I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it! – Nina Dobrev
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths. – Kevin Kelly
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change – led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence. – Lynn Margulis
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it’s a completely random process. – Meryl Streep