Top 100 Out Of Luck Sayings
#1. Neeva looked at the puddle of Christ's tears on the floor. When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck
Guillermo Del Toro
#2. It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
Clyde Tombaugh
#3. My kingdom for a gun. (Geary)
You don't have a kingdom. (Brian)
And I don't have a gun- looks like I'm shit out of luck all the way around, huh? (Geary)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
Rafael Nadal
#5. Is it safe out here?" I whisper.
"Mmm?"
"The animals? Bears? Wolves?"
Oskar laughs. "Well, I've already claimed you, so the other predators are out of luck.
Sarah Fine
#6. Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Whoopi Goldberg
#8. Probability said that someday we would run out of luck - as
Gene Kranz
#9. If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.
Lisa Yuskavage
#10. Why hell yes, Joe Bob! A cripple can always get himself a wooden leg, or a glass eye, or a metal hook for a hand, or any of that mess
but there ain't no known substitute for a big dick. I guess you is out of luck!
Larry McMurtry
#11. But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just ... us.
Daniel Quinn
#12. You don't touch her controls. You never touch my ship like that again. Next time it happens, I cut a finger off. Each time you go against me, you lose another finger. When you're out of fingers, you're out of luck. Am I clear?"
... "Perfectly," I choke. "Ten chances it is.
Emily Skrutskie
#13. I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.
Michelle Obama
#14. Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. You knew I'd say I'd protect you? And that vexes you? Should I have said that you're shite out of luck and all on your own, but thanks for the hot fuck!
Kresley Cole
#16. There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#17. The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.
Bill Smith
#19. Fun fact: You may hug koalas in the Australian state of New South Wales, but not in Queensland. So ... if you didn't hug your koala nice and tight before you got here to Sydney, you're going to be shit out of luck until we go back to Surfer's Paradise.
Elle Lothlorien
#20. A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.
Robert Kane Pappas
#21. I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#22. But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.
Shemar Moore
#23. The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.
Mark Twain
#24. They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured.
"Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to."
"Are you sure?"
"She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?
Joe Abercrombie
#25. I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#26. I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.
Richelle Mead
#27. Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?
Doug Stanton
#28. I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.
Tim Henman
#29. Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)
Mark Twain
#30. What does eminent domain mean?" Stewart asked. "It means you're shit out of luck," Ross said.
Ron Rash
#31. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#32. Dale: "No, no
curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say."
- Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck
Tamora Pierce
#33. The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person's existence.
William Boyd
#34. Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
Peter Lindbergh
#35. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself. Help him, maybe, but not tell him what to do.
John Steinbeck
#36. While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.
Tom Shippey
#37. I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
Hilary Swank
#38. I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
David Friedman
#39. Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.
Oscar Wilde
#41. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
#42. Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.
Steven Redhead
#43. When something bad happens to us, something good happens - often to someone else. And that's The Good Luck of Right Now. We must believe it. We must. We must. We must.
Matthew Quick
#44. Somebody's on a man hunt. And she's accepting all applicants with a big wallet, a penis, and a beating heart. Good luck with that.
Kim Holden
#45. When bad luck comes around, your reaction to it is a combination of how bad the luck is plus how prepared your body is for the stress.
Anonymous
#46. Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.
Mason Cooley
#47. I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.
Sonya Bateman
#48. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.
Jim Corbett
#49. He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
Chanakya
#50. There's a moon now, almost full. Good luck for owls; bad luck for rabbits, who often choose to cavort riskily but sexily in the moonlight, their brains buzzing with pheromones.
Margaret Atwood
#51. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!
Mary Gordon
#52. I was discovering a hard truth: There's no way to catch up on sleep. When it's gone, it's gone, and the best you can hope for is to have better luck next time.
David Van Etten
#53. Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.
Reginald Hill
#54. Annika called back, "Never would I give my daughter to a dog." Good luck with that one, Lachlain.
Kresley Cole
#55. It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.
Robert Pattinson
#56. I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.
Ernest Hemingway,
#58. The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it ... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
Alain Juppe
#59. I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
John Prine
#60. Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article "The Luck Factor," says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back to the same trees every day, eventually you're going to run out of fruit.
Shawn Achor
#61. The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.
Robin Hobb
#62. And knowing my luck ... that'll be the Engineer sign for Your mom's a skank.
Karen Traviss
#63. Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.
Larry David
#64. I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
Arthur Hailey
#65. In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
Yann Martel
#66. I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
Danica McKellar
#67. Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
Kurt Vonnegut
#68. Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.
Richard Jeni
#69. I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
Carl Paladino
#70. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.
Robin Sacredfire
#71. I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action.
Majid Kazmi
#72. It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.
Robert Breault
#73. Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.
Irakli Okruashvili
#74. luck is not entirely about chance; it's about the human ability to spot opportunities and make the most out of them.
Ashwin Sanghi
#75. I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.
Joe Kelley
#76. Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.
John Muir
#77. It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.
Markus Zusak
#80. A fresh spiderweb
billowing
like a spinnaker
across the open window
and here he is
the little master
sailing by
on a thread of milk
wish me luck
admiral
I haven't finished anything
in a long time
Leonard Cohen
#81. Sippin' on that brown stuff
Got you feeling like you found love,
Or maybe it was just luck.
But honestly ... it's probably none of the above.
Slug
#82. I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.
Tom Platz
#83. He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck.
Carlos Fuentes
#85. If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.
Walter Mosley
#86. Our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.
David Steindl-Rast
#87. Just Leo's luck. A super-hot immortal girl was waiting for him on Ogygia, but he couldn't figure out how to wire a stupid chunk of rock into the three-thousand-year-old navigation device. Some problems even duct tape couldn't solve.
Rick Riordan
#88. Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
Teddy Sears
#89. Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.
Tim O'Brien
#90. In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That
Winston Graham
#91. Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.
Woody Allen
#92. The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
William, Saroyan
#93. Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.
Stephen King
#94. Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
Brian Tracy
#95. Why do we procrastinate leaving? The denial phase is a humbling one. It takes a while to come to terms with our miserable luck. Rowley puts it this way: 'Fires only happen to other people.' We have a tendency to believe that everything is OK because, well, it almost always has been before.
Amanda Ripley
#96. Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.
Robert Hawkins
#97. Good luck gets a bad rap due to superstitions.
Ashwin Sanghi
#98. I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
Bear Grylls
#99. Welcome to my world! I've been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create cosmetics, perform comedy, act, lecture, write books, travel, have a fabulous daughter, and a phenomenal grandson-and I feel I'm the luckiest woman on the planet.
Joan Rivers
#100. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck
Sanhita Baruah
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