Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.
There are no answers, only cross references.
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.
It's always something
Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
When you plan something, it never works.
It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.
I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
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.
When you're making a movie, you have those days that you really look forward to, and it's a little bit like Murphy's law. The days you look forward to become your hell days. The days you're dreading become these amazing days.
I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.
