Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was a lucky bounce, but other than that, I saw the puck the whole game.

Gertrude Stein

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

Horace

Luck cannot change birth.

Jerry Della Femina

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Jeremy Grantham

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

Eugene H. Peterson

Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.

Ernest Hemingway

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Flann O'Brien

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

Henry Moore

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

Cate Blanchett

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

Cassandra Clare

Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?" "Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.

George Eliot

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.