Pastoral Resources

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Luck is an art.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

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

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.