Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Carpenter

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Frank Deford

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Joe Abercrombie

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Joe Abercrombie

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

Lloyd Alexander

Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Lloyd Alexander

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Louis Zamperini

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

John Gielgud

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

John Goodman

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

John Flanagan

It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.

Joseph Heller

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

John le Carre

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

Jimmy Doolittle

I could never be so lucky again

Jimmy Dean

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Jimmy Buffett

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

George Lucas

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

George Lucas

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

George Kennedy

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

Emily Perkins

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

Katherine Center

If you feel lucky, then you are.

Katharine Hepburn

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Justin Hartley

I worked all through my 20's, all through my 30's, so I've been lucky to be working.

Livy

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

Gail Carson Levine

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

Freya Stark

youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

Freya Stark

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

Fred Thompson

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Frank Loesser

Luck, be a lady tonight.

Julianne Hough

I'm so lucky that I have a great relationship,

Juice Newton

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

Joshua Leonard

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

Juvenal

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.