#luck

All the luck in the world has to come every year, in every part of every year, or there is not a harvest and then the luck, the bad luck will come and everything we are, all that we can ever be, all the Einsteins and babies and love and hate, all the joy and sadness and sex and wanting and liking and disliking, all the soft summer breezes on cheeks and first snowflakes, all the Van Goghs and Rembrandts and Mozarts and Mahlers and Thomas Jeffersons and Lincolns and Ghandis and Jesus Christs, all the Cleopatras and lovemaking and riches and achievements and progress, all of that, every single damn thing that we are or ever will be is dependent on six inches of topsoil and the fact that the rain comes when it's needed and does not come when it is not needed; everything, every...single...thing comes with that luck. ↗

— Gary Paulsen

#love

I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#am #first #i #lucky

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #bride #flower #guilty #had

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#agent #any #anything #auditioning #bad

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career. ↗

— Edward Albert

#career #countries #definitive #enough #film

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#empty #far #favors #form #fortune

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky. ↗

— Krista Allen

#drove #got #heck #i #just

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. ↗

— Woody Allen

#i #instance #last #last night #luck

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#fingernails #go #hanging #largely #luck

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it. ↗

— Fernando Alonso

#been #doing #enjoy #i #i can