Quotes of: Unlucky Keyword

In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Greatness has never been a product of a mind that sees itself as being very unlucky in life.

Edmond Mbiaka,

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

Andrew Bogut

I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

Ian Mckellen

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

Henry Cavill

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

Eddie Slovik

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Siri Hustvedt

It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.

Poppy Delevingne

A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

Edward M. Lerner

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

The Time of My Life

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.

Michel Patini

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.

Emraan Hashmi

I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

Jermain Defoe

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

Maeve Binchy

My impression of love: I found her—lucky me. I found her—unlucky her. She’d probably agree with me, which would be a first.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or n...

Douglas Hofstadter

P.L. Travers: [on finding a first name for Mrs. Banks] I will not have her called Cynthia, absolutely not. It feels unlucky. It should be something warm, a bit sexy. How about Mavis?

Saving Mr. Banks

A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of control and piety. The child may be deformed with a harelip or be cursed with the ears and head of a wolf. Or the...

The Fig Eater

He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil and falsity of life to be capable of taking a s...

War and Peace

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

Chris Evans

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison...

Emily Thorne