Nora Roberts Quotes

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

The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

If I had to give odds, I would say 30 percent of whatever good fortune I've had in this business has been luck, and 50 percent has been casting - so that's 80 percent right there. And 20 percent is just working really hard and taking risks.

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 always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

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

There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.

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

I could never be so lucky again

Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.