Detective Quote by Lily Gardner Download Open image ““that was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity.”” — Lily Gardner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detective Female-detective Luck Mystery Noir-fiction
“There is no such thing as luck. Only good or bad fortune. And God controls our fortune.” — Ardy Copy Share Image
“Luck was its own thing entirely, a free agent. And believing that something so fickle would ever be on your side, that it could… — L.C. Fiore Copy Share Image
“Most people were oblivious to the luck already bestowed upon them. I’d certainly been guilty of it.” — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I knew what I wanted.… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“What passes for good luck is really an infinite number of little good decisions. ” — Richard Steinheimer Copy Share Image
“No matter how far luck is running away from you , rational decisions, Hard working, and sacrifices always brings it back to you, even… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“about Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.” — Lily Gardner Copy Share Image
“There were men in their fifties, men who take a stab at fitness, men who try. They may not look young, but they still… — Lily Gardner Copy Share Image
“The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours… — Lily Gardner Copy Share Image
“When I saw the Twilight movies I thought being a Vampyre was so romantic. When my friends decided to be Vampyres it was so… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.” — William Kely McClung Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in… — Mark Valley Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.” — Jane Sunday Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
