Just My Luck Quotes

“This is just my luck. Every time I try to go out and have a good time, someone ends up getting punched!”

— E.M. Abel

“While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.”

— Tom Shippey

“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.”

— David Hewson

“Just my luck: My bloodthirsty killing machine was better with both kids and women than I was.”

— Mark L. Van Name

“There are two kind of people. Those who believe in luck and ones who try hard.”

— Ali Gh.

“God made the world for the delight of human beings
if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us
you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.”

— Mother Teresa

“Her mouth was on his with such ferocity, it knocked him back a step. He managed to haul her back so he could gasp for air and answers. "Not that I'm complaining." "Then don't. Shut up and put out Savoie." "You are so romantic, detective." She chained rough kisses about his neck. "What if I can't perform under this unexpected pressure?" Her hand dropped below his belt for an assessing fondle. "Just my luck. Appears to be high performance all the way." He chuckled and began to nuzzle and nip at her rather roughly, his attention supercharged by her aggression. "And what kind of handling are you looking for?" "Fast and reckless”

— Nancy Gideon

“Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.”

— Herbie Brennan

“She's here, in front of me. Just my luck. I obsessed about her all night, working out a plan to find her and take her soul. After the disappointment in my kill last night, I knew nothing would satisfy me until I had her.
Only her.”

— Christine Fonseca

“Yeah. I'm pretty sure I spent a good part of the day making everyone uncomfortable as I stalked Anna, trailing her through Patti's house. And it's just my luck the whole lot would be here to witness my temporary madness - Kope, Zania, Jay, the twins, Blake, and worst of all, Patti.”

— Wendy Higgins

“You knew I'd say I'd protect you? And that vexes you? Should I have said that you're shite out of luck and all on your own, but thanks for the hot fuck!”

— Kresley Cole

“Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.”

— Rick Riordan

“I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help.'
'Why not?'
'My lady, you make your own luck.”

— Maria V. Snyder

“Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. 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. That is the true meaning of thinking big.”

— Donald J. Trump

“Long ago, bats had been a symbol of good luck, but over the years they had come to symbolize safe travels through the darkness of space.”

— Marissa Meyer

“Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.”

— Charlaine Harris

“When my brother, ... , was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned man, was always regretting the fact: 'Just my luck!' he would say. 'What a pity she was not born a man!' But then I gradually realized that people were saying 'It's bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good,' and since I have avoided writing the simplest character.”

— Murasaki Shikibu

“Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.”

— Gregory Maguire

“To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!”

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Either he's shaken by something or he's falling off the wagon hard and fast. Great. Just my luck to be partnered with an alcoholic angel.”

— Susan Ee

“When it comes to luck, you make your own.”

— Bruce Springsteen

“I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces ... or my brothers ... in the audience. It comforts me.”

— Shreya Ghoshal

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”

— Harry Golden

“The hell with your secrets," shouted Bonnie.
"Language, language! How about this: One of you has kept a secret all
their life, and is doing so even now. One of you is a murderer-and I am
not speaking of a vampire, or a mercy killing, or anything like that. And
then there is the question of the true identity of Sage-good luck on your
research there!One of you has already had their memory erased-and I don't mean
Damon or Stefan. And what about the secret, stolen kiss? And then there is
the question of what happened the night of the motel, that it seems that nobody
but Elena can recall. You might ask her sometime about her theories about
Camelot.”

— L.J. Smith

“Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty.
No such thing as luck when everything's certain.”

— Toba Beta

“I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!”

— Jessica Valenti

“I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.”

— Janis Ian

“She's my friend."
"Good for you."
"Just my luck," I said. "Finally meet my twin brother and, turns out, he's an ass.”

— Kelley Armstrong

“The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?”

— David McCullough

“And knowing my luck  ... that'll be the Engineer sign for Your mom's a skank.”

— Karen Traviss

“I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.”

— Alec Baldwin

“Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.”

— Jennifer Aniston

“While the first few explosions might be written off as coincidence, or even bad luck, somewhere around the tenth destroyed vehicle a little light came on inside my head. I finally understood that no one could be this unlucky. There was only one possible explanation. You're sick in the head. The psychiatric community calls your specific mental illness Munchausen's by Proxy. A parent, usually the mother, purposely makes her children sick so she can bask in the attention and sympathy of others.”

— J.A. Konrath

“Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.”

— Richard Corliss

“Prudent men never trusted their luck. But Kennit had long ago decided that a man had to trust his luck in order for it to grow.”

— Robin Hobb

“It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.”

— Naomi Novik

“A fresh spiderweb
billowing
like a spinnaker
across the open window
and here he is
the little master
sailing by
on a thread of milk
wish me luck
admiral
I haven't finished anything
in a long time”

— Leonard Cohen

“A plaque at the door congratulated her for climbing 1,860 individual stairs, and she nodded as she caught her breath. "Just my luck," she gasped. "I'm going to have the best glutes left in the planet, and there nobody here to see them.”

— Dan Wells

“I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war," EPICAC had written after Pat's and my
lighthearted departure. "I want to be made out of protoplasm and last forever so Pat will love me. But fate
has made me a machine. That is the only problem I cannot solve. That is the only problem I want to solve. I
can't go on this way." I swallowed hard. "Good luck, my friend. Treat our Pat well. I am going to shortcircuit myself out of your lives forever. You will find on the remainder of this tape a modest wedding
present from your friend, EPICAC.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then checked himself, and a slight frown crossed his face. He returned to Catulus. 'One more thing, if I may? Who proposed this widening of the franchise?' 'Caesar' Although Latin is a language rich in subtlety and metaphor, I cannot command the words, either in that tongue or even in Greek, to describe Cicero's expression at that moment. 'Dear gods' he said in a tone of utter shock. 'Is it possible he means to stand himself?' 'Of course not. That would be ridiculous. He's far too young. He's thirty-six. He's not yet even been elected praetor' 'Yes, but even so, in my opinion, you would be well advised to reconvene your college as quickly as possible and go back to the existing method of selection.' 'That is impossible' 'Why?' 'The bill to change the franchise was laid before the people this morning' 'By whom?' 'Labienus' 'Ah!' Cicero clapped his hand to his forehead.”

— Robert Harris

“Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.”

— Faith Baldwin

“My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.”

— Armand Hammer

“I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.”

— Max Scherzer

“I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake
forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck
'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook
he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? Your're sure? Okay then friends, A salad's what I'll eat." They looked at me. "Oh,no," they said, "The owner is a cabbage head.”

— Shel Silverstein

“I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.”

— Bill Gold

“Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.”

— Pal Benko

“I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck ... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.”

— Pedro Meyer

“Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.”

— P. J. O'Rourke

“[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.”

— Calvin Coolidge