#stumble

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base. ↗

— Larry David

#along #back #base #could #doing

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. ↗

— Hans Blix

#biological #biological weapons #chemical #expecting #gas

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#ages #any #blindness #design #enlightened

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#chaplin #charlie #charlie chaplin #go #guy

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#happened #hurry #men #most #nothing

I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street. ↗

— Carson Daly

#cable #call #carson #dave #format

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#accidents #across #also #characters #film

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#innocence #justice #she #sometimes #stumbles

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident. ↗

— Gary Numan

#across #blueprint #i #stumbled #them