There has never been a shrimp that I’ve eaten that I haven’t been like, ‘I am so lucky that I get to eat this.’ I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo. – Isabel Gillies
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things. – John Thorn
I’ve been lucky because I’ve had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level. – Jimmy Smits
I’ve been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I’d like to think that of all of them, Big Ben – who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame – would still be competitive in the contemporary sport. – Ian Millar
Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it’s known today, and I’ve been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation. – John Lasseter
I’ve flown out of character so many times. In that sense I’ve been lucky, because I’ve been given the liberty to do just about anything I’ve wanted to do in my lifetime. – June Carter Cash
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I’ve dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. – Jane Birkin
If I’m ever lucky enough to be part of an awards tribute, I hope they play ‘Muffin Top’ in my little clip. That’s how I want to be remembered. – Jane Krakowski
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. – Jane Smiley
I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing. – Jane Green
If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous ’40s musical on video. But I’m very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I’m a ‘glass half full’ person. In fact, it’s three-quarters full! – Joan Collins
I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive. – John Elway
If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis. – Howard Fineman
One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don’t seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus. – John C. Reilly
We’ve been remarkably lucky in that we’ve been free to make the movies we’ve wanted to make the way we’ve wanted to make them. They’ve all been made for a price. – Joel Coen
We’re somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don’t have these checks and balances. – Jan Koum
I hoped, hoped, that maybe I’d be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus. – Jennifer Garner
Understated jewellery is not for me. It’s too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I’ve never had a yen for real jewels. – Iris Apfel
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel. – Ivar Giaever
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I’m very lucky. – Jeanne Calment
Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it’s an affair that’s as long as it is resonant. – Hanya Yanagihara