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Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963Related quotes
“How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”
Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer
Source: The Other Side of the Story
“If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“The composer makes plans, music laughs.”
Morton Feldman (1926–1987) American avant-garde composer
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.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
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.”
Robbie Williams (1974) British singer and entertainer
Feel
Escapology (2002)
Ben Gibbard (1976) American singer, songwriter and guitarist
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.”
Bernardo Dovizi (1470–1520) Italian cardinal and playwright
Act I, scene I. — (Fessenio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 338.
La Calandria (c. 1507)