Luck Quotes
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I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.
Adrian McKinty
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I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.
Sandra Bullock
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I haven't gotten jobs because I'm famous or I have a big Twitter feed - it's primarily directors. People employ me because I'm right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.
Jason Clarke
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I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.
Paul Auster
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Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.
Brad Thor
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
Ernest Hemingway
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If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
Luis Bunuel
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I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.
Carlos P. Romulo
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Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Richie Benaud
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All my life I have been favored by incredible luck. It would take too long to enumerate all of the occasions...
Claude Simon
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If my parents were to hear that their son won an Academy Award, they'd roll over in their graves. I was the luckiest person, but that luck came through the grace of Muhammad Ali.
Leon Gast
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It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.
Laurence Fishburne
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Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.
Albert M. Greenfield
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There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
Glenn Tipton Judas Priest
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A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
Emanuel Ax
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For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula Cole
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There are not a lot of things that Andrew Luck can't do, but the thing I like about him is his work ethic. He's a workaholic, and that's what impresses me the most.
Jon Gruden
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell
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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
James Hubert Blake
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Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.
Jacob Ruppert
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With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
Adam Kirsch
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I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.
Home Run Baker
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So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
John Mahoney
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I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.
Joe Kelley