Lucky Quotes - page 66

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear. (J. J. Abrams)
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. View quote
J. J. Abrams
Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth. View quote
Willem Dafoe
Television is art by committee...I'm lucky to have worked on some really interesting shows, but in film, you're there to fulfill the director's vision. If you get to work with great directors, you become a vehicle for that work. View quote
Raúl Castillo
I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids. View quote
Nick Clegg
When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered. View quote
Val Kilmer
I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole. View quote
Mike Shinoda
Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case. View quote
Stephen Fry
If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun. View quote
James McAvoy
You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. (Hugh Hefner)
I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it. View quote
Steven Wright
I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be. View quote
Steven Wright
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. View quote
Steve Jobs
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. View quote
Steve Jobs
We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East. View quote
Queen Rania of Jordan
No one invented it on purpose, it was invented in a lucky accident. ...By rights, string theory shouldn't have been invented until our knowledge of some of the areas that are prerequisite... had developed to the point that it was possible for us to have the right concept of what it is all about. View quote
Edward Witten
I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved. View quote
M. Ward
Tira Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about.... Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram. View quote
Mae West
Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it. View quote
Leonard Susskind
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right. (Susan Cain)
Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. View quote
Alan Moore
Perhaps some arm, more lucky than the rest, May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage. View quote
Joseph Addison
I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script. View quote
Bill Nighy
Hopefully, some of it has to do with us being good actors, too. There's some of it where you get lucky. You come on the job and there are people with you where there's a chemistry there. View quote
Jim Gaffigan