Top 1200 No Such Thing As Luck Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Richard Jenkins read the script [The Hollars] and really liked it, but he said, 'If you can get Margo Martindale, I'll do it. Otherwise, good luck.

If you don't have the coach, you're out of luck. So you can get as many players as you want, if you don't have a system or you don't understand what you're getting ready to do, you're not going to win.

Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

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.

Gnomes are supposed to be good luck in a garden, protecting against pests and diseases. A mythic gatekeeper, in the way a Kitchen Witch is.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.

Captains realise over a period that if they plan right and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition, luck attaches itself to their side.

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

Sippin' on that brown stuff Got you feeling like you found love, Or maybe it was just luck. But honestly...it's probably none of the above.

There are so many actresses who struggle for years to get where I am. It's luck that's worked for me more than hard work.

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

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.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

If everybody did just one thing. Just one thing. Not even a great thing. Not a world-changing thing, just one blessing, just one act of living kindness. The effect of each caring action, no matter how seemingly small, brings blessings into the lives of others. There may be no greater or more important thing that we can do at this instant.

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.

There are so many different factors - luck, being in good shape when it matters, the draw. For these reasons, it's hard to win a European Cup.

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.

I am hugely grateful to Mourinho. He is the coach who gave me my opportunity with Real Madrid, and I wish him lots of luck.

After I beat Rose and won the belt, I heard too many comments along the lines of 'Oh, that was luck.' You think that doesn't get to you?

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

This is the World Cup, and you need all the elements in place: a good coach, luck, and a cohesive team unit are fundamental requirements.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

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

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

I have to perform every time I'm in the car, and show that I'm capable, and I need a little bit of timing and luck to come together.

As for trying to feed off a mouthful of sky, it's a large mouth, hence there's nothing to worry. I wish good luck to everyone.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.

The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.

Even though 'Luck By Chance' is set in the film industry, the lead characters are people you know and see, but they are not your friends.

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!'

I see something that I don't like, I prefer not to participate and say, 'Look, I'll leave you to it, I wish you the best, a lot of luck and I support you, but I don't want to be there.'