Luck Quotes - page 24

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. (Frank A. Clark)
Playboy magazine announced that they are going to support the troops by sending them emails from Playboy playmates. After hearing this the U.S. troops said 'Just our luck, we get emails from playmates, but we're embedded with Geraldo.' View quote
Conan O'Brien
If it does not grow, even though you are working hard, it is not because of unfavorable circumstances, bad timing, or bad luck. ... of the past has shown, it is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth. View quote
Matsushita Konosuke
If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky. View quote
Christopher Lambert
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself. View quote
Peter Lindbergh
Move from apathy to action. Aim at becoming better than me. Luck will favour those who are prepared. View quote
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. View quote
Meg Rosoff
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school. View quote
Paul LePage
Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck. View quote
Twyla Tharp
Broken oaths are bad luck eggs.” That was so weird, I did not know what to say. So I said, "Eggs? View quote
John C. Wright
You cannot imagine the pleasure you are giving me. This woman and this infant [of an old picture, made in his early years] are my own family. The baby was in its cradle one fine summer day; the mother had fallen asleep beside it. In one hour I did the sketch from nature. It used to hang over my bed, and it cheered my awakening every day for years. Then arrived a morning when we were more in want of necessaries than usual. A dealer came along and offered me a hundred and fifty francs.... he insisted on taking that one in particular. As ill luck would have it, my rent was due next day. I was not in a position to be too particular. He gave me a bank note of one hundred francs, and ten hundred-sous pieces. I made him out a receipt, and he never perceived that he was carrying off a bit of my heart. Ah!, it was hard. (Narcisse Virgilio Díaz)
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make. View quote
Alain Resnais
It's really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you don't know if you're going to resonate with people or not. View quote
Blair Underwood
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant. View quote
Bob Feller
Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist. View quote
Brian Schmidt
I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success. View quote
Brooklyn Decker
First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful. View quote
Barry Manilow
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again. View quote
Barry Ritholtz
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck. View quote
Barry Ritholtz
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck. View quote
Chad Kroeger
There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism. (Cherie Lunghi)
You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it. View quote
Clyde Tombaugh
For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times. View quote
Curtis Armstrong
I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity. View quote
Carl Paladino
Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical. View quote
Cathy Cassidy