Pastoral Resources

My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

Give luck a chance to happen.

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.