Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Chandler Harris

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Joe Zawinul

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

Frank Deford

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

Livy

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

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.

Peter Shilton

The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

Peter Lynch

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Peter Lynch

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

Terry Pratchett

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Terry Goodkind

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The dice of God are always loaded.

Peter Thiel

Luck is like an atheistic word for God...

Penelope Cruz

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

Phil Collins

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

Peter Jacobson

Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes... yet.

Phyllis Bottome

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Placido Domingo

I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.

Joss Stone

I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things.

Sam Shepard

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

Thomas Carlyle

He that has a secret to hide should not only hide it but hide that he has to hide it.

Tony Curtis

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Joseph Heller

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

Reggie Miller

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Tom Petty

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

Simone de Beauvoir

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

Rick Riordan

I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!

Richard Branson

If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.