Lottery Quotes - Page 3

• If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Retirement, Government, Ideas

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• ...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

  Money, Jobs, Work

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• I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

  Joey Comeau

  Numbers, Choices, Esp

  "Overqualified". Book by Joey Comeau, 2009.

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• European lotteries are the tax on fools.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Gambling, Fool, Taxes

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• The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Gambling, Gold

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Winning, Men, Common Sense

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• 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

  Hands, Literature, Competence

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• 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

  Dream, Winning, Scary

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• No, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.

  R. J. Palacio

  Girl, Kids, Bird

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• If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

  John Major

  Sports, Art, Government

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• 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

  Jobs, Athlete, School

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• 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

  Magic, Lamps, World

  "Zachary Levi Talks HEROES REBORN, the TANGLED TV Series, The Nerd Machine, Comic-Con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers' high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn't stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Taken, Winning

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

  Laurence Sterne

  Tickets, Chance, Virtue

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. In Eight Volumes ..”, p.113

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• I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.

  Nando Parrado

  Good Life, Thinking, Winning

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• I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

  Mario Lemieux

  Thinking, Changed, Turns

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• I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

  Robert Breault

  Long Ago, Sunrise, Lucky

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• 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

  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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• If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Doctors, Sick, Healthy

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• The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction.

  John Pappas

  Horse, Player, Skills

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Winning, One Direction

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• A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

  David Mitchell

  Winning, Voice, Giving

  "Once upon a life: David Mitchell" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

  Vicki Baum

  Night, Men, Worry

  Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”

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• Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Firsts, Tickets, Birth

  Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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