The chances of winning the lottery are approximately one…

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…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“But in the parent department, he had won the lottery. So, he'd always known that when he finally told them, they'd make him feel…

— John Corey Whaley

The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

— Teddy Thompson

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to…

— R. Scott Bakker

“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,…

— George Saunders

True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had…

— Eoin Colfer

I got lucky with that first Kid Rock record thing and then just to be able to do the solo thing - and to…

— Uncle Kracker

I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.

— Jake Epstein

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of…

— Robert Kiyosaki

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the…

— Thomas Jefferson

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

— Stefan Molyneux

The legend that matrimony is a lottery has almost ruined the lottery business

— Katharine Lyall Whitehorn

Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we…

— Mary Karr