I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

- Fran Lebowitz

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

- Jane D. Hull

I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.

- Jake Epstein

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.

- Jonah Hill

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

- Jay Leno

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

- Isaiah Thomas

Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!

- Giuliana Rancic

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.

- Graham Norton

My wife said to me: 'If you won the lottery, would you still love me?' I said: 'Of course I would. I'd miss you, but I'd still love you.'

- Frank Carson

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

- Fran Lebowitz

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

- Adam Smith

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

- Derek Kilmer

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

- Douglas Coupland

I've been really lucky to get on shows that stay on. It's one thing to book a show, and it's like winning the lottery again to have it picked up, and then again to have the show stay on the air.

- Coby Bell

The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.

- Cameron Russell

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.

- Brian Koslow

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

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

- Bianca Jagger

Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

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

- Bill Watterson