Louise Erdrich Quotes

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

I keep my key chain simple because I'm a big believer in luck. And I've heard that having lots of things on it is too much baggage.

I am the superstitious kind: I never praise a shot because I fear the moment I do so, the batsman gets out.

God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.

When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.

I felt that I'd rather be lucky than good. That's the aspect I kept bringing to baseball. The more superstitions I had, the better off I'd have of finding more luck.

My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him - she was his mascot.

A lot of Brazilians are very superstitious, especially footballers. I'm the same. I always step on to the pitch with my right foot first.

I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.

I had my fortune told once at the Great Wall of China. A withered old lady told my fortune - but it was probably one of these things that are set up to rip off tourists. She told me a couple of vague things that came true, but she was probably just lucky. I would never do it again.

Four is actually my lucky number.

I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.

I'm not super superstitious, but if I listen to a song and then I do well, then that becomes my song for however long it works for.

Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

My right eye itches, some good luck is near.

May the hair on your toes never fall out!

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.