Quotes About Luck

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ak?ll? olman için dua etmiyorum. Ak?ll? olursan akl?n? güçlülerin hizmetine verirsin. Talihli olman? istiyorum ki ak?ll? insanlar sana hizmet etsinler.

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

My mind/a twist of clutter/ as i lie in bed imagining my life/ I watch the shadows on the ceiling./Memories sail across my eyes. / I need courage to see them. / I fight with myself/But then I close my eyes to the twilight/ And release myself to sleep. The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. I'd rather be lucky than good. Good is just so overrated. Bad girls have the most fun. A fool empties his head every time he opens his mouth

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Apparently just thinking about Grant Adams and his brothers was enough to conjure a miracle. Of all things, Grant was dying of cancer, and Cheever had a brain cell to think that Grant was the luckiest sonuvabitch Tyson had ever seen.

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.

You are doomed to a life that will repeat itself again and again, as do all lives—for lives are static things, readings of already written papers—but whereas some men are fortunate to repeat a good pattern, others have the opposite luck—and you can surely see by now that your life is doomed to this same humiliation, endlessly repeated.

'Fool If You Think It's Over' is still the only song I've ever not played guitar on, but it just so happened to be my first single, and it just so happened to be a massive hit. It was in the U.S. Top 10 for seven weeks.

I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

My training really was at the 'New York Times,' you know. When I got there, I was literally supposed to stay there for five weeks, and I got lucky like nobody, you know, like nobody's business.

Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. It all weighs out at the end. That is my experience at least.

I mean, I'm lucky because I've slimmed down, but the last thing I was thinking about was losing weight.

I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.

I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.

I feel very lucky and grateful that I've been welcomed by the Australian public.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well.

I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.

I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'