Luck Quotes
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If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.
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Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.
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I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
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It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.
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Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.
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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.
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This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.
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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.
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A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
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I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
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Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
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Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.
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I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.
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Be grateful for luck.
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
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You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.
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When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.
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Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
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No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.
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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
