J. B. Smoove Quotes

A tree falls the way it leans.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

What goes up must come down.

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.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I’m sure it would break down less than a millimeter from me and just ruin my clothes…Probably break my watch, too. (Taryn)

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

Maybe you'll get lucky." I said bleakly, lurching on my feet. "Maybe I'll get hit by a truck on my way back.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught.

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.