If You Are Lucky Quotes

#1. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

John Cage

#2. Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

Walter Darby Bannard

#3. It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

Laurie Colwin

#4. Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.

David Ogilvy

#5. If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

John Graves

#6. I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

Samantha Stosur

#7. 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 Hemingway,

#8. Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

Truman Capote

#9. Little Life Lesson 40: If you are lucky enough to vist the Fantasyland Diner, try to stay as long as possible because their desserts are no calorie, and also: the realy world sucks.

Michele Jaffe

#10. I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

Harriet Walter

#11. One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

Lawrence Fagg

#12. If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

Kate Bolick

#13. Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

Marc Andreessen

#14. One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Stephen Hawking

#15. If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.

Iain S. Thomas

#16. You cannot pick and choose love. Love picks and chooses you, if you are lucky. So what, you might lose everything? What better thing is there to lose if not everything for love?

Jack Dancer

#17. You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

Michael Connelly

#18. I'm staunch. If you are lucky enough to be able to play for your country, it seems to make you even prouder of your roots and origins, and to me that's Wellington.

Murray Mexted

#19. If you are lucky, God will lead you to a situation you cannot control, you cannot fix, or you cannot even understand. At that point true spirituality begins. Up to that point is all just preparation."1

Morris Dirks

#20. You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it ... is it really yours?

Brian MacLearn

#21. Love can destroy you.
Love can erase you.
Love can heal you.
Love can reinvent you,
And, if you are lucky enough,
Love can make you whole again.
That's what Cathy has done to me.

Mia Asher

#22. Which type of wedding gown best suits you?
If you are lucky enough to be tall and slender, you can pretty much get away with any type or shape of gown. That is why models are tall and slender - anything looks good on them!

Meg Cabot

#23. If you are lucky you will find something you love, if youre really lucky youll find someone to pay you for it

James Patterson

#24. Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

Randall Kennedy

#25. If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#26. Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#27. But being a brother or a sister (if you are lucky enough) is the role of a lifetime.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#28. If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

Taylor Swift

#29. There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it's shameful.

Sofia Vassilieva

#30. One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

Nick D'Aloisio

#31. What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.

Mary Lou Retton

#32. It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Michael Eisner

#33. If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Jane Smiley

#34. Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

Kenneth Branagh

#35. You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

Joyce Carol Oates

#36. If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

David Macaulay

#37. When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky.

Pablo Picasso

#38. Another pitfall: Utilitarianism is interested only in making the majority of people happy. It is concerned with the happiness of the many, not the misery of the few, which is fine if you are lucky enough to be among the happy many, but not so fine if you find yourself among the miserable few.

Eric Weiner

#39. If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Julian Fellowes

#40. If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're doing a character that is not where you are. If it's somewhere in between, you have to use a lot of imagination and a lot of thought.

Scott Cohen

#41. I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be.

Amy Poehler

#42. No great undertaking ever looks like it's winnable. That only comes later and only if you are lucky and are willing to fight and have a group of folks around you that are willing to do the same thing, too.

Mark Ruffalo

#43. Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

Joan Rivers

#44. We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.

Tim Rice

#45. Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.

Margaret Cho

#46. If there is a nice road to your destination, you are lucky; if there isn't any, then you are even luckier because you will have the chance to be a road-creator!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you

Amanda Hocking

#48. Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.

Michael Scott

#49. You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

Warren Buffett

#50. Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

Lewis Thomas

#51. We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.

Graham Nash

#52. A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.

Nick Harkaway

#53. I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.

Bill Watterson

#54. There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.

John Sayles

#55. Sometimes, all you can take are memories
But if you're lucky enough to capture the moment,
it lives forever, immortally fixed.

Keegan Allen

#56. If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

Sheryl Sandberg

#57. You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.

Charlie Jane Anders

#58. There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

Norman MacCaig

#59. If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.

Josh Dallas

#60. Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

Harvey Penick

#61. And things are never okay. It does get better I guess, in that you grow to love yourself if you're lucky. But it doesn't get better because life is hard, and people aren't always nice.

Justin Vivian Bond

#62. Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#63. It's important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are engaged and active, it means you are one of the lucky ones and you are awake. Most people are not there yet.

Darryl Pinckney

#64. When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.

Robert Barry

#65. You know, we all have scars, Summer. If yours are only on the outside, you should consider yourself lucky.

Seth King

#66. I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

Warren Buffett

#67. A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there.
And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.

Jenny Lawson

#68. You know, I was gutting this loser the other day, and I thought, It'd be more fun fighting that little dhampir. I wonder if she's recovered yet. And here you are."
"Lucky me," I said.
Scarface grinned. "You know, I might even let you live. You're funny.

Karen Chance

#69. Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else.

Charles Bukowski

#70. There are two kinds of women. The ones you go to bed with and the ones you wanna wake up with. Lots of the first, not many of the last. If a man's lucky, he'll find the last.

Kristen Ashley

#71. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway,

Gabrielle Zevin

#72. Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Alice Walker

#73. When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

Tony Hoagland

#74. Are you afraid I won't respect you in the morning?" She grinned up at him. "Morning?" He laughed as if she'd told the most hilarious joke. "You'll be lucky to last an hour.

Tiffany Reisz

#75. Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

Daniel Kahneman

#76. I think people make it out to be something that's complicated, maybe because there are a million emotions involved and we all haven't become mind readers yet, but it's not, it's terribly simple. You like who you like and maybe if you're lucky they like you too.

Kayti Nika Raet

#77. Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn't die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you're here for a reason, maybe we all are.

Rebecca Stead

#78. I don't think men ever grow out of their little boy games. They mature and find ways to make you not care or forget completely, if they know what they are doing and possibly your own name too, if you're real lucky. I'm feeling very lucky these days.

Jennifer Loren

#79. It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

Ayelet Waldman

#80. It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

William J. Bernstein

#81. If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.

William Hurt

#82. Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Diane Keaton

#83. I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#84. Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.

Sylvia Earle

#85. I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And it's nice, if you've put in the time, to achieve that recognition.

Lewis Black

#86. You've got your way, the way you are and the way you are with the ones you care about. And that tells me, a man gets in there, you give that to him, the children you give him, that man will be all kinds of lucky. And I've decided we're gonna see if that man is me.

Kristen Ashley

#87. If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#88. What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

Linda Hunt

#89. You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

Greg Lake

#90. The Best Men are like the ocean: They lure you in quietly and drown you. And if you are really lucky you stay lost at sea.

Susan Ward

#91. Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.

Jay Maisel

#92. Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out?

Nothing.

Ari Gold

#93. You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Donald Sutherland

#94. A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.

Kristen Connolly

#95. At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances ...

William Braxton Irvine

#96. You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.

Bill Maher

#97. When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

#98. Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

Twyla Tharp

#99. Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

Wayne Coyne

#100. Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren't. You are pure at heart or you aren't. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.

Richard Siken