Barbara Delinsky Quotes

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.

I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.

You just can't control your art in the future.

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

Threats I have faced are unprecedented.

I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that messes everything up and makes you rethink everything.

In football, sometimes things happen that are outside of your control, leading the club to make decisions.

The things that transpired in my life, they didn't happen in the order that they're supposed to, or are ideal. Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.

Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is completely different. The foundations that you have been building all your life are knocked down.

Everything works out in weird ways in the NFL.

The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.