Quotes About Luck

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.

Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a nigger." "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life--life's experiences--are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never knew one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the pain, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

You're writing like a freshman.' And he replied- I remember this very distinctly: 'We always look for doctors but sometimes we're lucky to find a frosh.

After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through. ***TWO QUESTIONS*** Would the gates shut behind her? Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out? As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things. Stealth. Nerve. Speed. More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement. Luck. Actually. Forget the ten minutes. The gates open now.

It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.

Hals und Beinbruch, Saukerl.

As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things. Stealth. Nerve. Speed. More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement. Luck.

Just bad luck. That's what you say. Of no consequence. That's what you make yourself believe- because deep down, you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.

Tal como Liesel descubrió, un buen ladrón necesita muchas cosas. Sigilo. Audacia. Resolución. Sin embargo, mucho más importante que todo lo demás era un último requisito: la suerte.

and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time.

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success

In general, writers never find out how strong their talent is: that investigation begins with their obituaries. In the USSR, writers found out how good they were when they were still alive. If the talent was strong, only luck or silence could save them.

Films are all luck and anarchy.

This is a true story but I can't believe it's really happening. It's a murder story, too. I can't believe my luck. And a love story (I think), of all strange things, so late in the century, so late in the goddamned day.

MAN DOES WHAT HE CAN, CHANCE DOES WHAT IT WILL.

Bad luck is what we conveniently call our bad choices.