“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“Bad luck is meeting your date's father and realizing he's the pharmacist you bought condoms from that afternoon.”

Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994) American journalist

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

“What luck I had to meet Morell. He has saved my life.”

Theodor Morell (1886–1948) Personal physician to Adolf Hitler

“Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”

Mario Vargas Llosa book The Time of the Hero

“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

“Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

Stephen King (1947) American author