Ellen Bass Quotes

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.

Some people think I have a death wish. I don't have one. I just make mistakes. Bad things happen to good people.

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.

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.

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.

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.

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

The press always compared my family to the Kennedys - so much bad luck.

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

There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

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

I've had plenty of bad breaks you know.

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

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