“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.” LifeEarthLinesAlivePerspectiveLuckyNormalSpringPercentDiedWinnerDawnMisfortunesCosmicAncestorOrganismsLiving ThingsOffspringUnbroken Author:Daniel Dennett
“I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.” IfsWritingI CanHardShowsMovingLinesBoysStruggleLuckyDrawsRanEditorsPencilsMarbleHallways Author:Brian Selznick
“I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.” LittlesHelpingArtistInterestLinesPositionLuckyUniqueBottomProfitLabelsBottom LineSigning Author:Jack White
“I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.” IfsWantLongLinesGrowingLuckyLong TimeBlessedClassic Author:Salma Hayek
“When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.” PeopleIfsEnjoyLinesAliveWifeHappenedFineDrinkDrugLuckyMurderWake UpMy WifeAlcoholHandleDrunkSmokeJailDrugs And AlcoholRouletteRussian RouletteLucky To Be Alive Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.” IfsYearsFirstsEndsFeelingsFightingLinesWrittenLuckyTenFifteenFifteen YearsOne Line Author:e. e. cummings
“I think in this world and this industry, if you let it, it does. And I feel that the people who don't have good friends and family around them are the ones who get a little funny. But I'm very lucky. I have good friends and good family and if I ever stepped out of line, my mom would take me down!” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsLittlesDoeLinesThis WorldMomIndustryLuckyMy MomTake MeGood FriendFamily And FriendsGood Family Author:Jeremy Irvine
“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
“People nowadays talk about issues as if they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingReadingLinesActingVisionIssuesTvsEasierLuckyBlindBoxesExpertsCharmDividesBowlsEchoesUnifiedDividingLeprechaunLucky Charms Author:Suzy Kassem
“Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you keep convincing yourself the press, the libs, the universities - hell, everyone but a few on the religious fringe and big business - are out to get you. I was lucky - I started to snap out of this a couple of years ago and hopefully will now apply to both major parties the same skepticism and cynicism I had in the past reserved for Democrats.” IfsYearsBelieveLongBigsWould BePastReligiousLinesPartyHellCoupleLuckyMajorsYears AgoPressesDemocratUniversityHopefullyCynicismSkepticismAmazedConvincingFringeReservedSnapsBig BusinessConvincing Yourself Author:John Cole
“Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.” WayInspirationalLinesWealthViewsMoneyMillionsReturnLuckyDecidedFortuneBottomProsperityRuinsApplesBottom LineNet Worth Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things.” LinesLuckyResponseIntenseSo LuckyCraziestPositive Response Author:Rumi Neely
“Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.” IfsStoriesCausesLinesLuckyFolksVariationBetween The LinesRead Between The Lines Author:Rob Lowe
“If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.” IfsThinkingLinesLuckyStraight LinesLucky You Author:Gene Simmons
“It's part of my responsibility, as an actor who has been lucky enough to have this job, to take my job very seriously, show up on time, know my lines, and give the best performance that I can because I'm doing something that so many other people work very hard to have and never get.” PeopleKnowsGivingHas BeensI CanHardEnoughShowsJobsActorsLinesResponsibilityLuckyPerformancesBest Performance Author:Eric Stonestreet