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

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Life is like an analogy.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

No one pays me to be nice.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

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

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

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.

I still have horrible luck with girls.

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

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Care and diligence bring luck.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

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

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

Luck's always to blame.

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.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Give luck a chance to happen.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Luck, be a lady tonight.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.