Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

George Sand

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

George Saunders

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

Jeffrey Gitomer

How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this...start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.

James Cameron

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

George Eliot

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

George Eliot

Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.

Chris O'Dowd

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

Chris Lilley

I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.

Fabrice Muamba

For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary,

Heber Springs was one of the better teams there, but luckily we matched up well with them.

Livan Hernandez

He can have it. He thinks it's my lucky glove, but I'm not superstitious.

He played very aggressively. I got lucky today for sure,

Isaac Asimov

I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Ian Fleming

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.

Artie Lange

If I get lucky enough one day to have Howard's money and life... Actually, you know what, if I ever get Howard money I am going to retire.

I can play him anywhere. I'm very lucky to have someone as versatile as he is.

Hugh Bonneville

I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

Howard Gardner

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

Franz Beckenbauer

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

Jeff Lindsay

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

Jeanette Winterson

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

Jeannette Walls

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Jeannette Walls

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

Jennifer Garner

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

Jeff Bridges

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

Christopher Lambert

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

Christopher Jones

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

Chris Shiflett

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

Gertrude Stein

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Peter Crouch

The first one took a big slice of luck, obviously, but I'm really pleased.