Unexpected Fortune Quotes

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

He was a king that had everything, and he lost it all but still had faith. So God blessed him with 10 times more. When I was in jail, like Solomon, I didn't understand why I was going through what I was going through. I was on the right path. Wasn't riding dirty. Then I got trapped in this hole. So I reached to the Word.

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

I think it's weird when you become rich at 40.

I don't know why God has been blessing me to make it look like I'm fit. I haven't worked out in months.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.

I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Suddenly, I found I was married to a millionaire.

I wasn't meant to be famous. I've been blessed.

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

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Honestly, I've been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.