Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
You make your own luck in life, so I'm not criticizing anyone - and I'm not even talking about myself for that - but I mean, every year, look at the team that wins. You can't control everything in a team sport. So I'm not going to cry about it, but yeah, there are moments where I'm like, "F - k. " But I say it almost in an appreciative way, in a way where I realize it's great not everyone can do it. I wasn't fortunate enough to do it, but that's what makes winning a title so special.
I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
As an artist, I've been very fortunate.
I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.
You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.
We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.
I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come into the game with a group of boys. We were young then. So your cats keep you in check.
I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.
I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?
I get a lot of inspiration from my surroundings, people I'm with. Mother Nature. It's combination of everything and really wanting to live life to the fullest. I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.