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“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.”
Richard Dawkins
“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.”
Bill Cosby
“But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.”
David Bowie
“Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.”
Steven Spielberg
“It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.”
Ayrton Senna
“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?”
Angelina Jolie
“Everything in life is luck.”
Donald Trump
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”
Oprah Winfrey
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
Walt Whitman
“Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”
Lucille Ball
“I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”
Yogi Berra
“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”
Orson Welles
“Luck is believing you're lucky.”
Tennessee Williams
“You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.”
Jimmy Dean