“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Page 457.
Everything's Eventual (2002), "Luckey Quarter"
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
“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Page 457.
Everything's Eventual (2002), "Luckey Quarter"
“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Speaking to his son Gregory, as quoted in Papa, a Personal Memoir (1976) Gregory H. Hemingway
“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”
Joanne Harris book Chocolat
Source: Chocolat
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain
Closing remark to the Presidential debate with Mariano Rajoy in the 2008 election campaign.
As President, 2008
Keith Olbermann (1959) American sports and political commentator
Catch Phrases
Source: http://videosift.com/video/Keith-Olbermann-reduced-to-minute-Olbermann-catchphrases
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153
1910s
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Bee, from Insects for Everybody
How to Attract the Wombat (1949)
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) French Romantic composer
L'auteur de ce Prophète a non seulement le bonheur d'avoir du talent, mais aussi le talent d'avoir du bonheur. <br class="br">Les soirées de l'orchestre (1852), ch. 5 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/SO05.htm; Jacques Barzun (trans.) Evenings with the Orchestra (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) p. 62.
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Álfgrímur's grandmother
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)