Lottery Quotes - Page 9

• We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Yield, Income, Subsidies

  1987 Quiddities,'Gambling'.

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• Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK

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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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• The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

  Anthea Turner

  Lucky, Celebrate, Contracts

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.

  Robert Haugen

  Games, Tickets, Lottery Ticket

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.

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• The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Oil, Would Be

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Years, Lasts, Billions

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• We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

  Jesse Helms

  Jobs, Demand, Needs

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• People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

  Daley Thompson

  Kids, Years, People

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• as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

  Fay Faron

  Believe, Gambling, People

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• The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

  Teddy Thompson

  Mind, Hitting, Radio

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• Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

  George Colman the Elder

  Men, Mind, Should

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• It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Real, Smart, Winning

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• Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

  Marty Becker

  Animal, Winning, People

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• In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

  Arianna Huffington

  Winning, Equality, Law

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Gambling, Riches, Tickets

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.459

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• Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Hard Work, Mma, Two

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• He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Loss, Self, Promise

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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, Lottery Ticket

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

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• Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.

  James Ellis

  Home, Humble, Men

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• We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Distinction, Virtuous

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• The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

  Theodore Parker

  Home, Honest, Labor

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.79

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• Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.

  Kinky Friedman

  Cat, Divorce, Winning

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• In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.

  John C. Bogle

  Winning, Thinking, Vegas

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• I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me.

  Conor Oberst

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

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