Molly Harper Quotes

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

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

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

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

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

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

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.

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.

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

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

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on." "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered. "I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but—" He wouldn't let her continue. "A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

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

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

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.

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Misfortune was my god.