No Luck Quotes

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

Everything in my life was luck.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours!

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only when I feel like I need some extra luck.

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

Every so often, push your luck.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.

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.

What is he doing here?" Curran growled. "He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade. "Tough luck. You're mine.

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

Luck can only get you so far.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

Luck is created by the prepared.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.

I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.