Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephenie Meyer

Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.

Stephenie Meyer

Good luck tended to avoid me.

Stephen King

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Simon Cowell

I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They're likely to say: "Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you."

Shirley Temple

Good luck needs no explanation.

Robbie Savage

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

Russell Crowe

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

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.

Vernon Lee

There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.

Thomas Perry

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Sarah Hughes

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

Roger Moore

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Robin McKinley

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

Sara Paretsky

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

Robert Anton Wilson

The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.

Veronica Roth

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.

Vince Flynn

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

Robertson Davies

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

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.

Jackie Stewart

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

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.

Jerry Reed

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

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.

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.

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.

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.