Quotes About Luck

California State University Professor Mike Orkin points out that if a person drives ten miles to buy a ticket, he or she is about sixteen times more likely to get killed in a car crash on the way than to win the jackpot. Wait a minute, you say; that may be for one ticket, but they're buying a lot of tickets—surely, that improves the odds. It does, but Orkin notes that a person who buys fifty tickets a week will win the jackpot on average about once every 30,000 years.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!

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.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.

So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!

I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

I've been very lucky as far as the things that I've picked, and the way they've worked out. I try to pass on stuff that looks like it's gonna be a bad time.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

I've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.