Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Lincoln Kirstein

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

During the summer, we'd be lucky to have two or three people in here a day.

First of all we have to reach Paris this season. Then we can see if Paris is really our lucky town.

Everything is in place in our program. Sometimes luck just isn't on your side.

We didn't let in a goal, that was decisive, even if we were lucky in some cases.

We're going to try to make our own luck this time.

We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.

Antonin Scalia

We say 'tough luck, you have to sell it in stores,'

Barbara Thompson

We feel lucky to have (this program) in the county.

You get a little panicked at first. You think the worst sometimes. Luckily for me, it wasn't. It's treatable what I've got.

Robert Kiyosaki

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

Robert De Niro

I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

To be frank, we were lucky to get a point. There is a lot to work to do before we play Pakistan.

Robert Griffin

We have a 12-month construction schedule. With any luck, we'll be done sooner.

Jerry Angelo

With Ruben, that was an aberration. Maybe we got a little lucky there.

I've never played hockey, it was a lucky shot, I had no idea where it was going.

Richard Thompson

It was upsetting at first, but then you realize there's not much you can do about it. We were very lucky no one was hurt. You can always replace buildings, but not someone's life.

It was tough luck for her. I don't think that is fair.

Patrick Marleau

We got some lucky bounces there and got some bounces off guys.

We got lucky and threw up some prayers that got the right bounce.

Richard Dawkins

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

Richelle Mead

I had an accident." "That seemes to happen a lot." "It wasn't my fault." "It never is." "I just have bad luck." "Or you're just trouble." "You got a problem with that?" "No problem at all." "Oh my God! Are you going to help or not?

Russell Banks

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Ron Atkinson

Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

Tre Cool

Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.

Rex Stout

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Rex Stout

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

Patti Stanger

I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

Peter Morgan

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

Paulo Coelho

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

Paulo Coelho

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.