John Cornyn Quotes

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

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

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

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

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

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

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.

Everything went wrong for me in the 1990s.

I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

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

Wherever I go, I'm followed by trouble.

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

So many things in my life have gone awry.

As ill-luck would have it.

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

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

The world was floods above and fire below

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.