I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. ~By David McCullough ~
I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together. ~By Vanessa Carlton ~
I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle. ~By Bobby Orr ~
I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working. ~By Mackenzie Astin ~
I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright. ~By Liev Schreiber ~
Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving. ~By Steve Winwood ~
I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival. ~By Eva Herzigova ~
We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel. ~By Tim Rice ~
I've been a very lucky actor. ~By Bob Newhart ~
In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent. ~By Loretta Lynn ~
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments. ~By Edmond H. Fischer ~
And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then. ~By William Joyce ~
Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that. ~By Tatyana Ali ~
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~By Dennis Gabor ~
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark. ~By Jonathan Lethem ~
Good night, and good luck. ~By Edward R. Murrow ~
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones. ~By Suzy Parker ~
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. ~By Judith Rossner ~
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ~By Jean Cocteau ~
I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano. ~By Robert Stack ~
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect. ~By Julie Andrews ~
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. ~By James Weldon Johnson ~
I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do. ~By Scott Foley ~
A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. ~By Emanuel Ax ~
I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated. ~By Diahann Carroll ~
I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. ~By Yogi Berra ~
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ~By Marquis de Sade ~
There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have. ~By Glenn Tipton ~
I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things. ~By Christopher Walken ~
No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky. ~By Wilford Brimley ~
I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick. ~By Jon Secada ~
I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music. ~By Bryn Terfel ~
I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife. ~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
I've been very lucky in my life. ~By Joe Gold ~
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. ~By Ovid ~
Luck marches with those who give their very best. ~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness. ~By Christopher Reeve ~
We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies. ~By Slick Rick ~
We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things. ~By Graham Nash ~
That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front. ~By Laurence Housman ~
I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky. ~By Rod Taylor ~
I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession. ~By Jim Sullivan ~
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. ~By Paul D. Boyer ~
And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. ~By Jacky Ickx ~
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. ~By William Feather ~
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know. ~By Lara St. John ~
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. ~By Peggy Noonan ~
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. ~By Erma Bombeck ~
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky. ~By Harvey Fierstein ~
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. ~By Sarah McLachlan ~
Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts. ~By Nancy McKeon ~
I wouldn't say I'm lucky, but I do take care of my body. I never drink or smoke, and I get the most out of my body. ~By Terry Vaughn ~
Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real. ~By Ashlee Simpson ~
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life. ~By Jane Badler ~
One lucky shot deserves another. ~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it. ~By James Gandolfini ~
I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic. ~By Roger Staubach ~
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. ~By Pierre Trudeau ~
I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever. ~By Van Morrison ~
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ~By James A. Garfield ~
I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. ~By Ron Perlman ~
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time. ~By Edmund C. Stedman ~
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game. ~By Zinedine Zidane ~
I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky. ~By Ace Frehley ~
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. ~By James Thomas Fields ~
Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike. ~By James Cagney ~
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. ~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things. ~By John Thorn ~
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. ~By Barbara Amiel ~
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well. ~By James MacArthur ~
I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself. ~By Hugh Dancy ~
The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit. ~By Robert Crippen ~
I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way. ~By Tim McGraw ~
I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others. ~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world. ~By Howie Mandel ~
No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero. ~By Fisher Stevens ~
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~By Bret Harte ~
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~By Earl Wilson ~
I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence. ~By Oded Fehr ~
I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys. ~By Robin Yount ~
I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones. ~By Suzy Parker ~
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it. ~By Charlie Haden ~
But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content. ~By Reese Witherspoon ~
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. ~By Barbara Bush ~
My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. ~By A. J. Foyt ~
I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about. ~By Alison Lohman ~
Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship. ~By David Leslie ~
I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen. ~By Robin Yount ~
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. ~By Laura Dern ~
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books. ~By Norman MacCaig ~
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation. ~By Martha Gellhorn ~
I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences. ~By Brad Dourif ~
A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it. ~By Jim Jones ~
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. ~By Matthew Perry ~
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it. ~By Galen Rowell ~
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic. ~By Salma Hayek ~
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