Quotes About Not Winning The Lottery

#1. We do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

Joanne Harris

#2. 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

#3. Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.

Erin O'Connor

#4. If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

Julian Baggini

#5. With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Miriam Toews

#6. Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

Jostein Gaarder

#7. Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

Joanne Harris

#8. I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me.

Conor Oberst

#9. If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.

Bernie Siegel

#10. To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

Stephan Pastis

#11. I've been really lucky to get on shows that stay on. It's one thing to book a show, and it's like winning the lottery again to have it picked up, and then again to have the show stay on the air.

Coby Bell

#12. No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. 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

#14. Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

Lori Lansens

#15. 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

#16. He said I'm the winning lottery ticket, like he's never meant anything more.

Crystal Woods

#17. The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.

Joe Tye

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

Jessie Cave

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. People play the lottery all the time unaware of how mind-bogglingly difficult it is to win. It seems like they take a different approach to probabilities. Their rationale must be, Well, I can either win it or not win it, so my odds of winning are 50/50.

Orlando Winters

#28. I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Fran Lebowitz

#29. Luck is not as random as you think.
Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

Vera Nazarian

#30. 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

#31. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

Fran Lebowitz

#32. Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery
It happens basically never, but if it does, you really shouldn't blow it.

Jessica Verdi

#33. Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.

Julie Warner

#34. I was a waiter before 'The Office,' so to me, this was a winning lottery ticket. Everything about my life has changed.

John Krasinski

#35. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Amy Bloom

#36. Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.

Woody Allen

#37. I'm not a wealthy person and I don't think that I would be able to prioritize that much money to go for a ride to a place that I have already lived. But if the price comes down or I win a lottery or something, why not?

Chris Hadfield

#38. You got up off the bathroom floor. That's a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all - aside from winning the lottery - all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.

Sarah Spann

#39. Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

Marty Becker

#40. Everyone at the bar turned toward The Breeze and waited, as if the next few words he spoke would reveal the true meaning of life, the winning numbers of the lottery, and the unlisted phone number of God.

Christopher Moore

#41. Sadly, like many times in life, including winning the lottery, we don't always get what we wish for.

Adele Rose

#42. Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

Bill Watterson

#43. Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

Amber Rose

#44. Finding a cat
or having a cat find you
can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.

Kinky Friedman

#45. What do you want, Zo?"
"What does anyone want, Abby?" he countered. "To be loved. Peace on earth. The winning lottery numbers.

Lisa Mangum

#46. Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#47. The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, it's kind of like winning the lottery. The independent film world is a world you can actually get to. You can get the under-a-million-dollar film by finding a good cast and financing.

Jill Soloway

#48. To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Cecil Rhodes

#49. Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

James Cook

#50. You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it,

Luis Gonzalez

#51. I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up ... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

Natalie Maines

#52. She was staying. A little longer.
V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.

J.R. Ward

#53. Kissing Cole Parker was like winning the make-out lottery.

Ainsley Booth

#54. She. Spoke. To. Him. First. It was like winning the lottery, getting laid, and climbing the highest cliff all rolled into one. But he needed to play it cool, becase he was trending into lame-o land at a quick pace.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#55. Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?

Mike Royko

#56. If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?

Steven Wright

#57. ? If you are not awed in the presence of a Holy God, then I say you may be like the crowds we have been observing in the Gospel of Mark and think of Jesus as no more than a winning lottery ticket to solve your immediate problems. Once the ticket is cashed, you take the money and go your own way.

Jonah Books

#58. It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

Ernie J Zelinski

#59. As with winning the lottery, or becoming famous - there is no manual for becoming a woman,

Caitlin Moran

#60. Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

Derek Kilmer