If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest HemingwayDavid loves to have facials and massages. He also likes to get his eyebrows plucked.
Victoria BeckhamWhen a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
[The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891]
Oscar WildeSome people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
Douglas William JerroldThere is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
Edmond FischerPeople in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
Margaret MeadMy only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
Duffy DaughertyA little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P J O'RourkeI find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas JeffersonTwo honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, 'What luck?'
Henry Jackson Van DykeI'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win. But with him, it's impossible. He is a great player. He can go far here
Richard GasquetMusic was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.
BabyfaceA self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Christina SteadI love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
Dennis QuaidDiligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin FranklinA great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric HofferYou can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good.
Ogden NashSome folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas HardyObviously we are very lucky to have got where we have, particularly when you realise that for many of our co-stars from Byker Grove their careers did not always take off in the same way.
Ant And DecDestiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Joseph HellerLuck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get
Ray KrocI was very lucky to come through at the time I did, with the growing interest and demand for animation and animators - it requires a great deal of patience and a good eye for detail.
Annette FunicelloHe just said he had had enough and wished me good luck [on O'Sullivan conceding a match early!]
Stephen HendryI've been lucky to have some great opportunities acting with some great people since leaving Corrie, I have certainly been kept busy since leaving the street!
Suranne JonesI'm lucky I don't do the kind of work where the main thing is that you're the girl and you look gorgeous. I don't look like that. I'm a funny-looking.
Emily WatsonLuck is only important insofar 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.
Frank SinatraHe's been very, very lucky, an average player who came into the game when it was short of personalities [on Kevin Keegan]
George BestThe art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
Jean Baptiste ColbertLuck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favouring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
John DeweyIf he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.
Robbie SavageThe law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond ChandlerI thought I'd be stuck there for hours. Luckily she was marrying a doctor.
Comedy DaveEverything in life is luck.
Donald TrumpMy body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.
Sylvie GuillemI score many lucky goals in my football life because I am always there, trying to shoot. For me the best goals are the ones like this when the ball just crosses the line.
Mateja KezmanFriends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica JongFor me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula ColeI think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey ParkerWe're lucky to have the family connection. We're close and close musically as well
Caroline CorrDo not pluck the beard of a dead lion
JuvenalThe fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the – what would you say – plucking?
Angelina JolieA best friend is like a four leaf clover:hard to find and lucky to have.
Sarah Jessica ParkerShallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
NellyThe internet is alive with attacks on me, calling me the new Jello, and the Sammy Hagar of punk. I am neither. I am a lucky fan who gets to hold the mic when those amazing songs are played.
Brandon CruzPlayboy magazine announced that they are going to support the troops by sending them emails from Playboy playmates. After hearing this the U.S. troops said 'Just our luck, we get emails from playmates, but we're embedded with Geraldo.'
Conan O'BrienSomewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.
Michelle PfeifferWhen a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
Edgar Watson HoweThey saw me getting dressed through the window [unlucky view for some tree surgeons]
Tess DalyIt's like being hit up the arse by a rainbow. [on being lucky]
Rod Eddington
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