Wesley Morris Quotes

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

History is the unfolding of miscalculations

Everything cannot go right all the time.

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.

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.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

Bad things happen sometimes.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

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.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

History is totally unpredictable.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

[Military] events are proof that success is not due simply to general causes. Particular factors can often be decisive—details known only to those who were on the spot. There can also be moral factors which never come to light; while issues can be decided by chances and incidents so minute as to figure in histories simply as anecdotes

No man can tell what the future may bring forth