Unfortunate Timing Quotes

Poor George, he can't help it — he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.

The day of my wedding, I got a FedEx in the mail. It was my termination papers. I was fired... on my wedding day.

In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.

Iraq is the wrong war and the wrong time in the wrong place.

I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you're from the movie 'Big Daddy,'' and I had bird poop all over me.

I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Mother Nature and Father Time have not been happy with me.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

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.

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.

No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

Conceding just before half-time never helps.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.