Marshall Brickman Quotes

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

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

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

The Universe is never conspiring against anyone.

The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

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

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Good luck needs no explanation.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

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.

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

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.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.