No Luck Quotes

It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.

Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

I think we could do with being a little more adventurous in certain areas and push on that little bit more, while a bit of luck also wouldn't go amiss.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

This is not our job, but we always follow the actions of our European partners closely and we wish them luck.

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

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.

The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.