Unexpected Consequence Quotes

If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

A Polish man had his vasectomy done at Sears. Now when he makes love, the garage door goes up.

Well, Prime Minister, here’s a pretty kettle of fish.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

It seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine...ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off.

I never thought my choice to leave the NFL would lead to 'Face the Nation.' When I first thought of quitting, I cringed at the notion of becoming a football safety advocate. I was making a personal decision; I never set out to influence others.

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!