Quotes About Luck

It only seems like that, Jeanne. It all seems caused by this man or that, by one circumstance or another, but it's like in nature: after the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more.

I'm not a lucky person who makes radiant decisions which are obviously right.

I have been on the whole a lucky man. And I would say that even now. Perhaps especially I would say it now.

She had the instinctive generosity of the thoroughly lucky person.

Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

With the blind jumps we took through hyperspace, it's lucky we didn't land up in a sun's belly.

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

We spent a good part of the twentieth century trying out various forms of revolution, from Marxism to savage capitalism, ranging through each and every intermediate shading. Our hope that a change in government can improve our luck is like hoping to win the lottery: totally without rational foundation.

Escapar ileso en un combate es cuestión de suerte, hasta el más experto puede perecer por una bala perdida.

Se vorbeste mereu de cat de mult iubeste o femeie, insa rareori de cat de mult a fost ea iubita. Am primit multa dragoste. Nici un barbat nu m-a parasit – un noroc incredibil, nu-i asa? N-a fost nevoie sa ucid pe nimeni din gelozie sau ciuda. (din "Viata si spirit")

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

I'm lucky my parents are incredibly supportive and generous people who have put so much faith in me as I jump into this crazy business. It really is so far outside their comfort zone in terms of what a profession can be.

I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.

I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down and pass out pretty easily. I know that not everyone can. I think I'm good at it because I travel so much, and for me, being on planes is like a sacred time. It's the only time to zone out and meditate.

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera, and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.