Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

Oscar Wilde

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

Madonna Ciccone

Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.

Lyle Lovett

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

Lleyton Hewitt

Grand Slams are different. If you can get through a few matches, the draw opens up and you get confident. You just need a little bit of luck early, you get through those opening matches and you never know what could happen.

Mehmet Oz

I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

Mark Twain

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Mark Twain

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

Mark Twain

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

Mark Martin

I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Mads Mikkelsen

I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

Mason Cooley

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

Mason Cooley

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Mason Cooley

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

Michael Frayn

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.

Michael J. Fox

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.

Ozzy Osbourne

When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

Paul Newman

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

Martha Beck

Good fortune has side effects.

Paul Hawken

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Pat Cooper

I'm the best at being lucky.

Julia Quinn

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

Judi Dench

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

Josh Duhamel

I really feel like a regular dude who happens to be incredibly lucky.

Horace

Luck cannot change birth.

Jerry Della Femina

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Jeremy Grantham

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

Felix Rohatyn

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

Felix Baumgartner

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Faith Hunter

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Evel Knievel

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

Evel Knievel

I am a lucky, lucky person.

Francis Bacon

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.