Richard Burton Quotes

Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

Bad things happen sometimes.

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

Some people think I have a death wish. I don't have one. I just make mistakes. Bad things happen to good people.

Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.

Everything went wrong for me in the 1990s.

I didn't get good breaks on TV.

I've had plenty of bad breaks you know.

I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Good luck tended to avoid me.