Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Owen

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Donald Trump

And personally, I watched him [Khizr Khan]. I wish him the best of luck.

Donald Trump

I've always been lucky with blood pressure. I've always had very good blood pressure.

David Mamet

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

David Fincher

I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

David Foster Wallace

I wish you way more than luck.

Dermot Mulroney

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

Anna Paquin

I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

Cillian Murphy

I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.

Cillian Murphy

[We were very lucky that Sean [ Ellis ] researched the film [Anthropoid ] for many years.] We sort of piggybacked on his knowledge, and he gave us a lot of materials, which we read. For me, the greatest resource was actually shooting the film in Prague.

Amy Tan

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Anthea Turner

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

Anthony Bourdain

Luck is not a business model.

Chuck Palahniuk

The lucky ones are just born dead.

Christy Mathewson

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

Christopher Nolan

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Christopher Paolini

Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

Alice Walker

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Anna Wintour

I've been very lucky to put women that I sincerely admire on the cover of 'Vogue:' the then First Lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, more recently, First Lady Michelle Obama. Those were benchmarks for the magazine, and certainly covers that I've been very, very proud of.

Amy Poehler

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

We were lucky to survive with two starters out. Everyone stepped up.

We were lucky to have three tons per truck.

We were lucky to get out when we did.

We were lucky to get any hits. The score really says it all.

We were lucky to come away with a win in that one.

Jane Birkin

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

Jandy Nelson

If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.

Jane Austen

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Jane Austen

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Brian Wilson

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

Bobby Fischer

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.