Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Stevenson

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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

Susan Polis Schutz

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Susan Ertz

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

Simon Beaufoy

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

Suzy Parker

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

Tony Parsons

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

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.

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.

Shenae Grimes

I'm very lucky with my metabolism.

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.

Reese Witherspoon

I'm lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I'll ever have.

Thucydides

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Reggie Miller

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

Victoria Wood

I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

Robert Fripp

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

Rick Majerus

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Rick Mercer

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

Val Kilmer

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

Sue Grafton

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

Robbie Robertson

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

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.

Steve Jobs

I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life,

Stephen Root

I'm lucky I get to work a lot.

Stephen Graham Jones

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.