Winning The Lottery Quotes:

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Funny, Money, Winning, Identical, Winning The Lottery

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

- Jay Leno

topic: Funny, Money, Thinking, Winning The Lottery, Lottery

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

- Daniel Gilbert

topic: Winning, Thinking, Unhappy, Bad News, Winning The Lottery

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

- Lori Lansens

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Winning, Unusual, Unlikely, Winning The Lottery, Lottery

...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

- Joanne Harris

topic: Money, Jobs, Work, Winning The Lottery

It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that's such a tiny minority of the elites who are able to make those millions of dollars. The reality is that it's very hard for the rest to make a living as an artist. So, you really have to persevere and understand that achieving the sort of success where you're making the big money is like winning the lottery.

- Isabella Rossellini

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Art, Stars, Reality, Winning The Lottery

Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.

- Ryan North

topic: Regret, Winning, Pay, Winning The Lottery

The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.

- Joe Tye

topic: Dream, Real, Winning, Winning The Lottery

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Winning, Snow, Hobbes, Winning The Lottery, Two Cents

She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.

- J.R. Ward

source: J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.216, Penguin

topic: Winning, Littles, Staying, Winning The Lottery, Vishous

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.

- Poppy Z. Brite

topic: Dad, Winning, Chance, Winning The Lottery

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

- Julian Baggini

topic: Believe, Winning, Imagination, Winning The Lottery, So Lucky

When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Municipality, Winning The Lottery, Focus Groups, Public Sector, Reproductive Health

I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

- Hailee Steinfeld

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Winning, Winning The Lottery, Lottery

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

- Cecil Rhodes

source: "The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902, Volume 2". Book by Lewis Michell, New York and London: Mitchell Kennerly, p. 178, 1910.

topic: Firsts, Remember, Englishmen, Winning The Lottery, Lottery

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Winning, Lightning, Tickets, Winning The Lottery, Lottery Ticket

You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery.

- Tony Todd

source: "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.

topic: School, Mean, Winning, Study Life, Good Listener

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

- Vincent Kartheiser

source: "Vincent Kartheiser Talks MAD MEN, Why People Prefer Don Over Pete, Gender Roles in the 60s, Jon Hamm’s Directing Skills, and More". Interview, collider.com. April 27, 2013.

topic: Winning, Faces, Actors, Winning The Lottery

I've been really lucky to get on shows that stay on. It's one thing to book a show, and it's like winning the lottery again to have it picked up, and then again to have the show stay on the air.

- Coby Bell

topic: Book, Winning, Air, Winning The Lottery

Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.

- Kinky Friedman

topic: Cat, Divorce, Winning, Marriage Divorce, Winning The Lottery

Getting a role in Harry Potter was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

- Jessie Cave

topic: Jobs, Winning, Acting, Winning The Lottery

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

- Amber Rose

topic: Dream, Winning, Scary, Winning The Lottery

I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

- Natalie Maines

topic: Fun, Winning, Broken, Dixie, Winning The Lottery