O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Walter Scott

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Mark Stevens

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
Gary Gygax

Random violence is incredibly infectious.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.
Ken Hill

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.
Amy Poehler

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.
Jello Biafra

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
Francis Crick

The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
Laura Hillenbrand

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.
Tom Jenkinson

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.
Kathie Lee Gifford

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
John Walters

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
Walid Jumblatt

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
Bob Goodlatte

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas More

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
A. B. Yehoshua

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
Eberhard Weber

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.
Brian Baird