Quotes about Luck

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of early morning, sweeping out and mopping, and luck were all you needed. For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

I've been very lucky that I've never had cellulite. My body was always firm.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out the window.