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Michael Chabon 96
Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963Related quotes
“How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”
Source: The Other Side of the Story
“If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
“The composer makes plans, music laughs.”
Quoted in Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman, ISBN 1878972316.
“God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man.”
Slip Slidin' Away
Song lyrics
Context: God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man.
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip slidin' away.
“I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.”
Feel
Escapology (2002)
On the the title of the Death Cab for Cutie album Plans, as quoted in Mix online (1 January 2006) http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_death_cab_cutie_2/index.html
“ Man never makes a plan but fortune makes another.”
Act I, scene I. — (Fessenio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 338.
La Calandria (c. 1507)