#Luck

"I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!"

"When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky."

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

"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."

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

"I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies."

"Everything in life is luck."

"We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck."

"Concentration attracts luck factor."

"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."

"Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades."

"There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better."

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

"In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes."

"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help."

"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."

"Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck."

"The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought"

"I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart."