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Film · Neo-noir · Thriller (film) · Thriller

You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Dirty Harry Callahan

Dirty Harry · 1971

★ 8.5

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Benjamin Franklin

1736

★ 7.6

God helps them that help themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

1736

★ 5.5

Comedy album · Comedy (stand up)

My lucky number is 4 billion, that doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling…come on, 4 billion! Fuck, 7. Not even close.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 5.2

Autobiography and memoir

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 1790

★ 3.9

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

★ 3.9

If it wasn't for bad luck You know, I wouldn't have no luck at all

Born Under a Bad Sign · 1967

★ 3.8

Luck, if you will, is something you work for, and the harder you work the more luck you have.

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

1940

★ 3.5

He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

1734

★ 2.2

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The cause of the bad and of the good fortune of men is the way in which their method of working fits the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli

1531

★ 2.1

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

★ 2.1

Film · Neo-noir · Thriller (film) · Thriller

I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Dirty Harry Callahan

Dirty Harry · 1971

★ 1.9

Novel · Children's literature

But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. The chance had to be there.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory · 1964

★ 1.9