There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. . . . They win battles, and they make me lucky.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).
Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.
Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)
There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.
When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.
Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.
I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.
I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.
Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.
I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.