No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
Quotes about chancy (6 Quotes)
Last Thursday weblogs.com processed just under 2 million (1.96M) pings for the day. When we started talking with Dave Winer, owner and founder of Weblogs.com, a couple months back, the ping totals were barely half of that, and the load even then on the servers made pinging Weblogs a chancy proposition during peak posting times.
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else when discovered it was not wanted and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
When daily you write intensively, one day of laziness subjects you to a suffering of unfamiliar compunction. The words can freeze and the state of privation worsens with idleness. Thus, a day off for a writer is chancy and, in conclusion, solely a luxury of other professions.