Quotes About Luck

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

We've been lucky with our music; people have liked it.

I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain, and I think, in truth, there are moments where you could have said we got pretty close, you know.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

I think I am lucky enough to be getting this chance also that people want to know about me. I don't want to complain over it.

Overall, I think I'm just lucky, and I hope I continue to be lucky.

I had a fear of heights but I overcame that while shooting for 'Luck.' I jumped from a height of 2,000 feet for one shot.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

I'm lucky to have acted during a great era, and I was able to get a lot of love overseas, and I'm happy that I was able to contribute to hallyu in my own way.

Call it my good luck or my open-minded nature; I never felt that I was overshadowed by my co-stars.

A Roman penis was potent, masterful, prodigious. In a city where the phallus was everywhere to be seen, protecting doorways as a symbol of good luck, guarding crossroads or scaring off birds in gardens, ramrod size was much admired.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.

Coincidence only carries so far, and then you just have to figure that the universe wants to fuck you up as much as possible

If you flip a coin 1000 times, eventually it's going to roll away someplace where you can't get it.

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money. Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)

The way I saw it, people are like leaves that have fallen into a swift-moving stream. As the leaves get carried downstream, some are caught in rocks and never get any farther. Some are swept to shore. Others - the lucky ones - keep going, missing the stones, staying clear of the shore, staying afloat until they reach the river delta and break free into open water.

Veo que no has encontrado a tu tío. Qué pena. Si fueras un poco menos astuto, quizá tendrías más suerte.

Our luck was still good. Sometimes a junkie and a whore can still make out in the Land of the Free.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.