Ellen Gallagher

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

American Artist

Howard Jacobson

As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.

British Novelist

Greil Marcus

Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event or cultural happenstance is supposedly at issue: 'You can't fool me.

American Author

Karen Finerman

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

American Businesswoman

Norman Lloyd

I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened.

American Actor

Rowan Atkinson

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

English Comedian

Richard Linklater

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

American Director

Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

British Author

Sunita Williams

Becoming an astronaut was a little bit of happenstance for me.

American Astronaut

Penelope Lively

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

English Author

Happenstance often refers to unexpected meetings with people.

Unplanned Encounter

Happenstance emphasizes events outside of one's control or influence.

No Control

Happenstance can imply a fortunate and happy coincidence.

Serendipitous Tone

 to take photographs of but as an animal that had been overlooked that needed scientific attention my attention and as happenstance would have it I had been doing exploratory diving off the very remote and undeveloped coastline of Mozambique and wow what an awesome time of my life you know diving places that maybe no one had ever

Andrea Marshall: Queen...

 Amazon when we actually looked at the evolution of relationships of that species everything in yellow in that evolutionary tree is in fact the leech that feeds on the mucous membranes of mammals this isn't a happenstance thing it's been going on for millions of years

The extraordinary lives...

 to depict someone of villainous character. We need to understand these kinds of implicit biases if we are to overcome them and aim for a society in which we treat people fairly, based on their behavior and not on the happenstance of their looks.