Lottery Quotes - Page 8

• My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Dad, Winning, Chance

  "POPPY Z. BRITE: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, January, 1998.

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• Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European heat wave of 2003, the fiery Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year [2011] can each be attributed to climate change. The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.

  James Hansen

  Morning, Jobs, Past

  "NASA scientist links climate change, extreme weather", www.cnn.com. August 6, 2012.

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• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  Natalie Maines

  Fun, Winning, Broken

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• No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on stage and people are being supportive - whatever it is, you're still you. And whatever work you've done to be comfortable with yourself, you know, you're not really going to advance beyond that point unless you put in that work. There's no magic fix.

  Michelle Chamuel

  Dream, People, Magic

  Interview with Robin Young, nhpr.org.

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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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• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Statistics, Imbeciles, Taxes

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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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• Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.

  Douglas Coupland

  Home, Thinking, Shoes

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• War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

  David Mitchell

  Country, War, Soldier

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• But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

  Caitlin Moran

  Pregnancy, Duress, Force

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• Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

  Emily Giffin

  Struggle, Hard Work, Luck

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Ignorance, Annoyed, Arbitrary

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.160, A&C Black

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• You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Play, Doe

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• I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me.

  Inspectah Deck

  Philosophy, Rap, Hip Hop

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• This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars.
  We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!

  RZA

  Rap, Boys, Hip Hop

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• After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

  Steven Levitt

  Fun, Winning, Impact

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Successful, Luck, Program

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• I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Believe, People, Joy

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.9

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• You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Winning, Tickets, Lottery Ticket

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• There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, "Percy is my brother?" like he'd just won the lottery. Aw, Tyson," I'd say. "It's not that simple.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Moving, Simple

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.

  Daniel Defoe

  Christian, Running, Horse

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

  Henry Fielding

  Taxation, Fool, Creation

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• Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

  Tobias Smollett

  Writing, Men, Age

  Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.312

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• Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.

  William Lane Craig

  Believe, Numbers, Events

  "The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity". Book by Lee Strobel, 2000.

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• Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hope, Doors, Feelings

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books

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