Luck Quotes - Page 35

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. “This isn’t a date.” He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I’d bring Count Chocula for that.

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

Once in a while a person does only one thing in his whole life, and we'll talk about that later, but a lot of times there is repetition. I claim that luck will not cover everything. And I will cite Pasteur who said, "Luck favors the prepared mind." And I think that says it the way I believe it.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes they don't, but I am not wealthy or anything like that. I just love to work. I would rather work three hundred and something days out of the year. I would rather be working. They don't know. I love playing. Then I can really get my music together.

Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

I've been lucky enough to have made enough of these types of children's books that while I don't necessarily know what works, I know what doesn't work. I've got a sense of the rhythm and the form. With this series, I get to play with ideas that I would never have myself.

The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.