We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
“We generally outlive premature success and inherited riches.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland! — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery. — Grant Hill Copy Share Image
I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically,… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the… — Kinky Friedman 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
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there… — James Payn Copy Share Image
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would… — Michel Foucault 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
I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular… — Lara Spencer Copy Share Image
I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the… — Tim Costello Copy Share Image
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Usually with my opponents, I don't care if they win the lottery or they die. — Jorge Masvidal Copy Share Image
Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job. — Jessie Cave Copy Share Image
Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility? — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual. — Lori Lansens 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
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
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
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