Aulus Gellius Quotes

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

Strictly by the nature of 'Veep,' in any given moment, a lot can go wrong.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.