“Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.” EnoughCasesConditionsGoes OnLuckyDisorderSevereSpectrumBipolarBipolar Disorder Author:Stephen Fry
“Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?” IfsEnoughWholeWantedDiesRealizingForeverPiecesDyingGoes OnFitLuckySomedayWhat IfPuzzlesPuzzle Piece Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.” IfsKindLongFacesTechnologyGoes OnLuckyEvidenceThings To DoExtrasLong LifeNew TechnologyExtra Time Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.” PeopleIfsTryingPersonsHardBigsHoursChallengesRoomsDealsStageMissingReadyHard WorkPerspectiveGoes OnLuckyJokesConnectionsCarefulBe CarefulNow And ThenBig DealHere And ThereLucky Person Author:Brian Regan
“There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.” ThinkingFeelsMomentsSoundSleepAbilityBabyGoes OnLuckyConversationFindingsLonelyBoringBitterBoredParisJealousSparesUnnaturalResentSpare TimeConsoling Author:David Nicholls
“Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.” WayBookGoes OnLuckyExcellentWill To Live Author:Lev Grossman
“It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.” IfsMenYoungPartyGoes OnLuckyDatingDinnerAttractiveYoung ManCocktailsCocktail Parties Book:No Nice Girl Swears Source: No Nice Girl Swears
“I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.” FeelsLooksBodyLife IsEasyStuffBitsForeverOne ThingGoes OnProudLuckyMessagesGloryWoodsFortunateDamnTouchingDamn GoodLife Is Not Easy Author:Paul McCartney
“I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies. I write a concept, a treatment, an outline, and if I sell that to a studio, then someone else does the actual production and I go on to another project, although I keep the title executive producer.” IfsWritingDoeIdeasWholeProduceGoes OnLuckyProjectsConceptsSellsProductionsStudiosProducersTitlesTreatmentExecutivesOutlines Author:Stan Lee
“When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off” UsedLinesGoes OnLuckyLet MeEmploymentIronPilotsMaidensIron Maiden Author:Bruce Dickinson
“There were radio shows where you actually got to hear people play off of each other and get that immediate magic that goes on. And rather than doing what a lot of shows do, where an individual comes in, reads their part, and you edit it together later on and try to build a performance, we're lucky because this is really very much a theatrical performance that is going on, every single week.” PeopleTryingPlayShowsTogetherIndividualMagicWeekGoes OnLuckyPerformancesRadioEditsTheatrical Author:Jeph Loeb
“I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.” PeopleKnowsWorldAmericaEnjoyDealsGoes OnLuckyEvidenceGet BetterHopefulLife Goes On Author:Teju Cole
“I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.” KnowsI CanJudgingGoes OnLuckyChinesePublishersTranslationsDutchThai Author:Sandra Cisneros
“You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.” FeelsAgeSocialMediaGoes OnAmountLuckySocial MediaIntenseBullyingNegativity Author:Natalie Portman
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders