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  • The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

    Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult
  • What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

  • Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

  • I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

    Funny   Humor   Scratches  
  • I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.

    Funny   Humor   Giving  
  • The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.

  • Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

    Funny   Marriage   Tears  
  • I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

    Funny   Humor   Watches  
  • What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

    Lonely   Hate   Night  
    Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Two   Feelings   Would Be  
  • It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. I are engaged in what he calls these lottery ticket careers. On the one hand it's very, very unlikely that you're ever going to hit it. On the other hand if you do hit it, you really hit it. You have to be engaged with it, though, maybe you're entire life. And if you never actually do hit it? You kind of jovially lie yourself along the way and recognize that it may produce things outside the hitting it kinds of goods, I suppose.

    Brother   Lying   Athlete  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

    Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.92, Metropolitan Books
  • Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

    Dream   Thinking   People  
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK
  • When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.

    "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.
  • A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

    Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.64, Crown Business
  • Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

    Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster
  • There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

    Fall   Fate   Odds  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

    Symphony   Long   Pieces  
    Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company
  • You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

  • You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

  • An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

    Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.334, Simon and Schuster
  • I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

    Funny   Humor   Dollars  
  • It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

    Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.459
  • If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.

  • Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

    Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

    Winning   Magic   Desire  
  • It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

    Awards   Fake   Gold  
    "Nick Cannon Shares Spoken Word Poem About Oscars Controversy". www.billboard.com. January 24, 2016.
  • Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

  • Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

    Hope   Doors   Feelings  
    Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books
  • Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

    Firsts   Tickets   Birth  
    Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.96, Pan Macmillan
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