Lottery Ticket Quotes - Page 2

• If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.

  Steve Morse

  Practice, Leader, Promise

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• Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

  Norm MacDonald

  Merry Christmas, Thinking, Guy

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• It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

  Nick Cannon

  Awards, Fake, Gold

  "Nick Cannon Shares Spoken Word Poem About Oscars Controversy". www.billboard.com. January 24, 2016.

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• A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

  Peter Thiel

  Agency, Over You, Important

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.64, Crown Business

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• The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

  Peter Lynch

  Simple, Stories, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts.

  Rick Hoffman

  Three, Pilots, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Volleyball, Odds, Should Have

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• Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Commitment, Doors

  "Hope In The Dark". Book by Rebecca Solnit, 2010.

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• Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

  Grant Morrison

  Winning, Magic, Desire

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• I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Scratches

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• It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. I are engaged in what he calls these lottery ticket careers. On the one hand it's very, very unlikely that you're ever going to hit it. On the other hand if you do hit it, you really hit it. You have to be engaged with it, though, maybe you're entire life. And if you never actually do hit it? You kind of jovially lie yourself along the way and recognize that it may produce things outside the hitting it kinds of goods, I suppose.

  Clancy Martin

  Brother, Lying, Athlete

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Winning, Yawning

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• We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

  Atul Gawande

  Winning, Dollars, Tickets

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.92, Metropolitan Books

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• The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

  Donald Barthelme

  Tickets, Spots, Concern

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lonely, Hate, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan

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