Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.
If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?
If I won the lottery,I would love to buy an airfield and populate it with enthusiasts like myself, and old airplanes.
Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . . ] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here. '
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets. . . Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.
There are no races. Only lotteries.
You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.
Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.
A lottery is a tax on stupidity.
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets. Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.
This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!
I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket. . . it's part-ownership of a business.
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
