Dick Cavett Quotes

Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

Somebody up there likes me. It ain't like I've followed a well trodden trajectory.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

I got very lucky that some of the things that I wanted to work did work. Not because I knew what I was doing, just through dumb luck, it just looked beautiful and sounded great and captured some magical mood. And you just have to hope that you get lucky when you do big things like making a movie, or something.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.

Things have always happened better for me than I could plan them to.

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

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

I could never be so lucky again

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.