George Edward Woodberry Quotes

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

Misfortune was my god.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

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.

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

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

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.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

Bad things happen sometimes.

What makes something tragic is that it could've been averted at multiple points.

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.

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

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

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

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.