I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Margot Asquith

Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

Kurt Vonnegut

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Josiah Royce

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

William Hurt

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

Thomas P. O'Neill

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

William Graham Sumner

It's so easy to grow apart marriage takes work.

Courteney Cox

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

Brittany Snow

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne