“We generally outlive premature success and inherited riches.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.” — Roger Jones Copy Share Image
“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.” — Jean-Michel Rene Souche Copy Share Image
The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more. — Derek Kilmer Copy Share Image
Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks. — George Colman the Elder Copy Share Image
Watching a pretty girl walk past you that you can't pick up is like winning the lottery and not being able to… — Pradeep Chandra Copy Share Image
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your… — Steve Morse Copy Share Image
Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to… — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Copy Share Image
“I want someone to look at me like they just won the lottery. And I want to feel sure that I have,… — Sarina Bowen Copy Share Image
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm going to talk to her." "And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image