Top 100 Quotes About Lottery
#1. A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket.
Chris Pratt
#2. Most people don't even try to learn the ways of the kingdom; they just go about their days with a practical agnosticism, hoping things work out, tossing up prayers like they hope to score on a Jesus lottery ticket.
John Eldredge
#3. Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.
Clarissa Dickson Wright
#4. Simon closed his eyes again. He nodded slowly. "So we're slaves to love. And who we're given to love, that's a lottery too. Is that what you're saying?" "It's brutal, but that's how it is," Sissel declared. "And the gods laugh," Simon said.
Jo Nesbo
#5. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith
#6. Writing is all a lottery
I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
Tobias Smollett
#7. Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#8. In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.
John C. Bogle
#9. I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.
George Sand
#10. Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.
Lori Lansens
#11. It's like playing the lottery. It doesn't matter how extremely low the chances are of winning. You gotta be in it to win it. Hitting on every girl in sight is like buying a whole lot of lottery tickets. You never know, one day one of them might actually pay off.
Oliver Markus
#12. He said I'm the winning lottery ticket, like he's never meant anything more.
Crystal Woods
#13. We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.
Atul Gawande
#14. Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person.
Amy Smith
#15. 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
#16. I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.
Mario Lemieux
#17. People feared what was different, and whoever was the most different would win the witch-hunt lottery.
Dan Wells
#18. Bailee had watched them come in and out of the sheriff's office the week she'd been in jail. She, Sarah, and Lacy had sworn daily that if any one of the three won the lottery to become a husband, the other two women would help their friend become a widow as fast as possible.
Jodi Thomas
#19. War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#20. In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#21. My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
Poppy Z. Brite
#22. Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
Linford Christie
#23. Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky ... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.
Rebecca Solnit
#24. I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.
Jimmy Carr
#25. The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.
Daniel Gilbert
#26. Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#27. A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue
doing it if you won the lottery.
Dennis Prager
#28. All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like wealth, like beauty, which only a small minority enjoy ...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
#29. What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.
Anthony Liccione
#30. If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.
Michel Foucault
#31. I have been happier in the past week than I ever imagined possible and it doesn't have a damn thing to do with the money. You're the real prize. The lottery was just a bonus.
Amanda Young
#32. They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.
Annie Potts
#33. Oh, I don't buy lottery tickets ... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also be equally capable of extremely bad luck, like getting struck by lightning, or falling out of window or something. I'd rather just not know.
Chrissi Sepe
#34. The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.
Arian Foster
#35. The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich
Robert Kiyosaki
#36. Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.
Grant Morrison
#37. A reward-sensitive person is highly motivated to seek rewards - from a promotion to a lottery jackpot to an enjoyable evening out with friends. Reward sensitivity motivates us to pursue goals like sex and money, social status and influence.
Susan Cain
#38. I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#39. A man attacked me, choked me, bit my neck, burned my hand, then stuffed my shirt full of money and put a dumpster on me and now I can see heat and hear fog. I've won Satan's lottery.
Christopher Moore
#41. Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.
Brian Koslow
#43. Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.
Jessie Cave
#44. Countless doctors have drawn little tic-tac-toe grids for my parents over the years to try to explain the genetic lottery to them. Geneticists
R.J. Palacio
#45. What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery.
Victor Hugo
#46. Innovation is a discipline not a lottery ... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.
Georges St-Pierre
#47. I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
Hailee Steinfeld
#48. I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria
#49. Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.
Ryan North
#50. Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.
Vincent Kartheiser
#51. My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
Leonard Mlodinow
#52. You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.
Bill Cosby
#53. When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.
John Scott
#54. In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
Jane D. Hull
#55. If you're truly lucky, you only need to buy ONE lottery ticket.
Gusto Dave
#56. I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
Daniel Tammet
#57. Lottery was just a tax on people who weren't good at math.
Cindi Madsen
#58. Make sure your list of things that you want to change is actually controllable. Don't put something ridiculous like "I want to be President of the United States" or "I want to win $1 million from the lottery.
Linda Westwood
#60. In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
Arianna Huffington
#61. Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of its birds.
R.J. Palacio
#62. Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him.
Tom Brokaw
#63. I always hate people that complain about showbiz after they've had a good run. To me there are so many great bands that never get their due, that are struggling away. And I'm like, if you hit the lottery, man, you can't expect it to come around every time.
Miles Zuniga
#64. Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.
Victor Hugo
#65. Finding the one who loves you is like lottery but you don't have to close up the page, just keep on searching and you'll find.
Auliq Ice
#66. Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
Jay Leno
#67. Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket
Andy Gray
#68. Yeah, well I've never tried to imagine you before me. Probably because I still wake up every morning and question whether I dreamed you. And when I realize you're my real, it's like winning the lottery every damn day of my life.
Jewel E. Ann
#69. Do you always drink Sprite?" I asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"I want to buy some for when you visit my place."
Bailey grinned like I had told her she won the lottery. If she kept smiling at me that way, I didn't think my ego could fit into the restaurant much longer.
Bijou Hunter
#70. When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.
Khaled Hosseini
#71. Fat people have shit in their stomach; arrogant people have it in their brain. Health and Success aren't Lottery Games.
Daniel Marques
#73. We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#74. My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
Kat Dennings
#75. A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
Henry Fielding
#76. If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
Alexei Sayle
#77. I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.
Sid Waddell
#78. As long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.
Fay Faron
#79. Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.
Steven Rattner
#80. It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.
Nina Conti
#81. There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
James Payn
#83. Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.
Lori Perkins
#84. It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
Thomas Malthus
#85. True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#86. The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.
Paul Theroux
#87. It is 23.32 p.m. I still believe in symmetry, so this will be the last part. You've reached an end if you come back to where you started. I also remain superstitious about certain numbers. I use 23 and 32 for my lottery tickets, for example. It extends to dates. I still see signs.
Olivia Sudjic
#88. If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.
Zachary Levi
#89. I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.
Tim Costello
#90. If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion
#91. The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
Lucy Powell
#92. STATISTICS
Pack of Lucky Strikes.
A lottery ticket
ACT
#93. You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.
Kylie Minogue
#94. So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.
Eduard Hanslick
#95. The Power Poker lottery would be won by a person having no ties to any Chicago street gangs or terrorists - Joe Normal.
Ridley Pearson
#96. I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses
Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries.
Lyrically perform armed robbery,
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me ...
Inspectah Deck
#97. Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
#98. Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
George Kaiser
#99. I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.
Rodney Brooks
#100. Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one
E.L. James
