Top 80 Lottery Quotes

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I’ve hit the lottery.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.

Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?

We didn’t have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

I’ve always said that it’s like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets – getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts. There are no guarantees, and no one knows where a show is going to go.

Getting on a popular, long-running show like ‘Happy Days’ is the actor’s equivalent of winning the lottery.

As long as you’re recording and they pay the fee, it’s like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying.

The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.

Getting a role in ‘Harry Potter’ was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones – competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

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

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn’t get it, so I hate the lottery.

When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it’s with the hope of winning something more.

The game of love, in my opinion, is a lottery.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

The diversity lottery program is a proven method of offering a path to legal permanent status for residents of African nations and other underrepresented regions seeking a better life here in the United States.

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they’re still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down.

It’s sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there’s an air of desperation about it.

I haven’t always been the best advocate for my own body. I was a too-tall, pudgy child who felt completely out of control of the genetic lottery ticket she’d been given, so in retaliation, I shut down. I ignored my body and hated it for not being tiny and cute like my friends’ bodies.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

It’s more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

I look at the PGA, and it was like winning the lottery.

Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.

It is not right that in 2019 the lives of too many of our people are still subject to a postcode lottery.

I was the No. 1 player in high school. I was a lottery player at Duke. I was player of the year in the ACC as a freshman. People just forget about these things, like I don’t deserve to be in the league.

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.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to ‘Firefly’, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

My goal is to have a simple lottery to help our people and solve a decades old problem dealing with our general fund, particularly Medicaid. Let us solve this together and allow the people in your district the right to be a part of the process with a vote.

I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn’t get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

People would love to be rich, but they’re looking for the easy way. Who wouldn’t want to win the lottery? Just to score.

Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It’s such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.

The only lottery I’ve ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

Kroos was right to go abroad. It was like winning the lottery.

People didn’t object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

We’re really not going to get that much money out of a lottery for a small state like Alabama.

Stand-up’s a lottery – you think it’s funny but the audience can disagree.

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I’d won the lottery.

‘El Gordo’ is the name given to the oldest lottery jackpot in the world – and the richest. Held every year in Madrid on December 22, the Christmas Lottery culminates with the picking of the El Gordo number, the Fat One, which, for many, has become the true Christmas miracle in Spain.

A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket.

My whole career, I’ve been an underdog, I’ve been underestimated. Therefore, I’ve had a chip on my shoulder my entire career. Being drafted in the second round when you think you’re supposed to be in the first round, a lottery pick, the chip grows bigger. And you have more to prove.

If I won the lottery I’d start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

Sometimes, you feel like you’ve sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I’m going to buy it back.

I’m happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you’ve won the lottery.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: ‘I’m waiting to win the lottery. I’m waiting to fall in love’. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, ‘Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets – it works!’

Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never – they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

I’ve always been interested in photography. I remember when I was about 14, I spent an entire summer selling lottery tickets in some little booth so I could make enough money to buy an Olympus camera.

I was a waiter before ‘The Office,’ so to me, this was a winning lottery ticket. Everything about my life has changed.

Hip flexibility is genetic to a degree, and the most gifted hitters have won both the genetic and mechanical lottery.

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.

Writing books and being paid for it – it’s not like winning the Lottery. You can’t suddenly go, ‘Yippee!’ and start throwing tenners in the air. I’ve done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, ‘Right, that’s me set up for life.’

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. ‘He can win’ or ‘She can’t win’ is up there with, ‘I’m going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.’ Saying it does not make it so.

When you’re bad in the NBA, you’re in the lottery. When you’re great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

The postcode lottery means that the level of care you get differs hugely around the country, and the health service simply cannot meet every demand that is put upon it.

They’d have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-ticket holders have to be in a lottery to see if they get tickets, and then they don’t get a good ticket. Really, no good can come out of it, and all it can do is upset your fans.

You shouldn’t have to win the boss lottery in order to have a little bit of flexibility at work. Raising and supporting a family isn’t just a financial obligation. What’s important isn’t just being able to put food on the dinner table – we want you to be at the dinner table, too.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

I don’t wear much makeup, except during work. I felt lucky to be chosen to be a model. I used to joke, ‘The next best thing to winning the lottery is having a beauty contract.’

Nobody is going to come into Alabama to buy lottery tickets. The only people that are going to buy them here are those that live here, and that’s just a certain percentage of people.

If you buy a lottery ticket, you really don’t expect to win. However, if you do win, it’s a different story. The same is true about getting an Oscar. Of course I knew I was nominated, but I never expected my name to be called. When it was, I’m still at a loss to describe the feelings that I experienced.

Some of today’s athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

The striking game is always a lottery game, so I prefer to take the safe situation. Submission is the best for me. I’m the guy looking for it all the time.

As late as my junior year, I was taking Italian at Duke because I thought I was going to have to go overseas and play. Then I had a great senior year and became a lottery pick.

I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.

Derren Brown doesn’t really predict the lottery numbers. But there is an enormous amount of entertainment in there.

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.