#lottery

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#business #easy #forget #lottery #share

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

— Kat Dennings

#commercial #first #get #hate #i

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

— Bill Watterson

#getting #inch #like #lottery #snow

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. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#almost #along #came #college #go

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#billion #efficiently #lottery #over #raised

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

— Justin Long

#based #business #feel #happiness #hit

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. ↗

— John Major

#ahead #always #areas #arts #back

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. ↗

— Brian May

#becoming #chance #despise #getting #head

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. ↗

— James Payn

#hand #learned #literature #lottery #many

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#chances #could #dad #equivalent #ever