“Luck is probability taken personally.”

— Penn Jillette

Often repeated by Penn Jillette, who attributes this quote to Chip Denman.[citation needed]
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American magician 1955

Ivars Peterson (1948) Canadian mathematician

Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 1, “The Die is Cast” (p. 19)

“When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)

“There have been times when I've thought of suicide but with my luck it'd probably be a temporary solution.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!”

Elise Broach Masterpiece

Source: Masterpiece

“Great results in science and engineering are "bunched" in the same person too often for success to be a matter of random luck.”

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Persons who think there is no such thing as luck—good or bad—are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 380

“As a historian, he understood that what in hindsight were taken to be grand events really consisted of a myriad of tiny, seemingly inconsequential choices. Often as not, great moments hung on coincidences and random luck.”

Lawrence M. Schoen (1959) American writer and klingonist

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 12, “Ancestral Lands” (p. 119)

“Confession is probably the most neglected area of personal prayer.”

Bill Hybels (1951) American writer

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”

Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist

Extreme Championship Wrestling. September 4, 2007.
To Armando Estrada when he wished CM Punk good luck in his "Last Chance" match with John Morrison.
Extreme Championship Wrestling

“Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!”

Otto Skorzeny (1908–1975) Austrian SS-Standartenführer (colonel) in the German Waffen-SS

Quoted in The Race for Rome (1975) by Dan Kurzman.

“Luck is probability taken personally.”

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