Good Luck Quotes - Page 9

• It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

  Alison Moyet

  Wave, Easy, Felt

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• I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.

  Natasha Lyonne

  School, Trying, Charm

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• We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Winning, Blood

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.196, China Books

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• As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Wife, Mistress

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.56

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• Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

  Tig Notaro

  Fun, People, Bad Luck

  "Very Funny" by Ariel Levy, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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• The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

  George Polya

  Math, Science, Discovery

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

  George Eliot

  Boys, Opportunity, Doors

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.205, 谷月社

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• A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Mathematical Equations, Interesting

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• Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Understanding, Principles

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• In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Ideas, Evil

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

  Norman Parkinson

  People, Looks, Shade

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• Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

  Elizabeth Warren

  Guy, Bigs, Persons

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Warren from Feb 11, 2015

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• Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

  Jon Stewart

  Good Night, Pieces, Determined

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• This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

  Ray Davies

  Song, Opportunity, Creative

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• When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours!

  George Lopez

  Girl, Sleep, Boys

  "George Lopez". TV Series, m.imdb.com. 2002-2007.

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• We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

  Russell Crowe

  Grace, Darkness, Invites

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• Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.

  CM Punk

  Lasts, Loser, Last Time

  Before a match at Extreme Championship Wrestling, September 04, 2007.

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• Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

  Babe Ruth

  Lord, Said, Wells

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• How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

  William Dean Howells

  Fall, Luck, Pieces

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Of Literature”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• I dont have good luck in the match points.

  Rafael Nadal

  Luck, Match Point

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• And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

  Frank Borman

  Good Night, Merry Christmas, Apollo

  Frank Borman, Robert J. Serling (1988). “Countdown: an autobiography”, Silver Arrow

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• People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

  Brian Johnson

  Years, People, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Mistake, Merit, Disaster

  J. Christopher Herold (2016). “Bonaparte In Egypt [Illustrated Edition]”, p.559, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

  Jackie Stewart

  Misfortunes Of Others, Cases, Luck

  "Reflections on Success". Book by Martyn Lewis, 1997.

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