Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Anton Yelchin

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Alexander Fleming

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Alice Walker

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Alice Munro

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

Anthea Turner

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.

Susan Polis Schutz

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Steve Jobs

I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life,

Stephen Graham Jones

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Reggie Miller

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

Stephenie Meyer

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.

Thomas Harris

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

Victoria Wood

I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

Victor Hugo

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

Stephen Vincent Benet

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Tamora Pierce

Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

Swami Vivekananda

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Sue Grafton

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

Mel Ott

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

Miguel de Cervantes

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Miguel de Cervantes

As ill-luck would have it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

Neil Gaiman

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

Neil Gaiman

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

John Steinbeck

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

John Steinbeck

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

Terry Pratchett

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Michael Lewis

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

Mary Stewart

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?