Art Bell Quotes

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

I've been a part of this before, where you think the racing gods are against you, then next thing you know, you can't do anything wrong. You're winning races and doing things you feel like you shouldn't have done that particular day. It all comes full circle in this sport. It has a funny way of doing it.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

The world runs on luck.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

Life is about timing.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

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

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

In short, Luck's always to blame.