John Connolly Quotes

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

It's so funny whenever things come full circle.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

Black cats cross my path all the time. I'll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.