Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
~By Timothy Zahn ~
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
~By Angelina Jolie ~
If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.
~By Chris LeDoux ~
I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.
~By Lena Horne ~
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 ~
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
~By Tony Snow ~
I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
~By Theodore White ~
Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
~By Vida Blue ~
It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.
~By Tony Oliva ~
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
~By Bill Cosby ~
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
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 didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
~By Matt Cameron ~
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
~By Michelle Hunziker ~
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
~By Maya Angelou ~
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.
~By Richard Grimes ~
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
~By Bob Geldof ~
That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
~By Julie Harris ~
Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
~By Suzy Parker ~
We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are.
~By Kristin Davis ~
You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.
~By Carol Channing ~
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
~By Robert Fulghum ~
We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
~By Katie Holmes ~
Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.
~By David Zucker ~
It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
~By Judith Guest ~
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
~By James Lovelock ~
I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice.
~By Eric West ~
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
~By Reggie Jackson ~
I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.
~By Yancy Butler ~
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
~By Zinedine Zidane ~
With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
~By Richard Branson ~
Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.
~By Christie Brinkley ~
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.
~By Phil Keoghan ~
I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.
~By Marla Maples ~
I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.
~By Steve Lacy ~
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
~By Don Shula ~
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.
~By Rose McGowan ~
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.
~By Louis Nizer ~
I was unbelievably lucky.
~By Wendy Hiller ~
I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.
~By Eric Heiden ~
I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
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 ~
I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.
~By Richard Donner ~
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.
~By Jose Carreras ~
Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
~By Richard Cobden ~
Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
~By Joshua Homme ~
Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.
~By Darrell Royal ~
The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
~By Alain Juppe ~
I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.
~By Michelle Kwan ~
You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
~By Barbara Bush ~
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
~By Aaron Allston ~
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 be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
~By Jordana Brewster ~
I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.
~By Marisa Tomei ~
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
~By Robertson Davies ~
I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.
~By Lynda Barry ~
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 ~
Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.
~By Justin Guarini ~
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
~By Johnny Mathis ~
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
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 ~
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
~By Jamal Lewis ~
The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important.
~By Otto Friedrich ~
Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.
~By Rube Goldberg ~
Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.
~By Piers Corbyn ~
I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
~By Emo Philips ~
My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.
~By Jamelia ~
When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
~By Buck Baker ~
We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers.
~By Jami Gertz ~
I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.
~By Morris West ~
I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.
~By Herb Elliott ~
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