Lauren Groff Quotes

I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.

I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

If you believe a black cat is bad luck, people think you're crazy, but plenty of times, if I see a black cat down my street, I turn around and go the other way. Even if I'm late. I'll be late for the airport and be in a limo, and if I see a black cat, I'll be like, 'Sir, you have to turn around and go down the next street.'

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. You know how in New York there's a lot of scaffolding? I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck.

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

I keep my key chain simple because I'm a big believer in luck. And I've heard that having lots of things on it is too much baggage.

I am the superstitious kind: I never praise a shot because I fear the moment I do so, the batsman gets out.

I felt that I'd rather be lucky than good. That's the aspect I kept bringing to baseball. The more superstitions I had, the better off I'd have of finding more luck.

Footballers are very superstitious.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

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.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.