Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Jerry Reed

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

Jackie Stewart

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

Francois Rabelais

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

Jerry West

You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.

George Eliot

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

George Eliot

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

Faith Baldwin

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Frederick Douglass

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Harper Lee

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Frederick William Faber

He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.

Janet Evanovich

Morelli smiled. "It could have been Jenny Ragucci. That makes much more sense. I had good luck with sluts." I looked over at him. All in the past," Morelli said. "I'm a cupcake man now." Whoa, dude," Mooner said. "That's so, like, cosmic.

Haile Gebrselassie

I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

Jay Leno

John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.

Gene Krupa

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

Hippocrates

Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Harrison Ford

I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

Harrison Ford

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

J. D. Salinger

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

Lucy Hale

So many people didn’t want to touch the project with a 10-foot pole. Literally, I had people laughing and saying, ‘You’re making an album? Good luck.’ … But if you sit down and talk music with me for 10 minutes, you know that’s my passion.

Louisa May Alcott

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

Jon Stewart

I always get that cautionary warning right before I get off the phone with an interviewer. It's: 'Good luck with the show. I really like it, and if this goes wrong, you'll be hearing from my attorneys.

Patty Duke

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

R. A. Salvatore

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

George Lucas

Good luck has its storms.

Joseph Heller

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Pierre Trudeau

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Leighton Meester

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

Paul Dirac

A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.

Patrick Stewart

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.