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Quotes About Mishap

Bess frowned, bit her lip, and managed to get a noose twirling. Then plop—it dropped over the head of her own horse! Tex gave a piercing whistle. George and Nancy burst into laughter while the "steer" helped blushing Bess to dismount. "Never mind," said Nancy. "You didn't want to be a cowboy, anyway!
~ Carolyn Keene
Despite the failure of Velda Cannon's Depends, we'd had a great time.
~ Charlaine Harris
I messed up my eyes. It's funny, I was training and we thought I had a mild concussion. But you know, I was out in Albuquerque and I would train from 9:30 to 11:00 and then I would rest all day long until 5:00 and I'd be playing on my phone, so I was playing on my phone and it scrambled my fore-vision.
~ Derek Brunson
He fell ass over tea Kettle
~ C.E. Murphy
Siempre es sobre accidentes
~ Gayle Forman
The lamp tipped over, nailing Kane in the head. Sabin shook his head. The man was a walking disaster Literally. Whenever Kane stepped into a room, things went to hell pretty quickly. Sabin expected the ceiling to cave in any moment. And yea, it had happened before.
~ Gena Showalter
The top bag popped, and a metric ton of old lasagna spilled onto my pants. The stench of soured spaghetti sauce washed over me. Ew. Of all the trash from this whole giant building, I had to step on a bag from the food court. Damn it.
~ Ilona Andrews
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
One year, we tried to deep-fry a turkey. It must have been really humid outside, because the temperature of the oil got thrown off. It ended up being slow-cooked in oil - black on the outside and raw on the inside.
~ Chrissy Teigen
I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
~ Emily Blunt
It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!
~ Allan Sherman
I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.
~ Henny Youngman
As ill-luck would have it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I was on my bike and got hit by some damfoo' in a Mercedes.
~ Neal Shusterman
Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger.
~ Charles Stross
I just peed and forgot to take off my underwear.
~ Chelsea Handler
Tally yanked her hand away and stuck it behind her back. God. I am so sorry. She'd touched him. Felt the heat of his tanned skin, felt the crisp hairs at his groin...felt...oh, man. Nice try, but no cigar. Want to go for two out of three? Tally closed her eyes and blew out a breath. Oh, this day just gets better and better. It's certainly looking up for me. With an amused glance, the pirate hitched his shorts back over the sharp angle of his hipbones. There'd been so sign of a tan line.
~ Cherry Adair
We know more people who have gone to the ER for an immersion-blender injury than just about any other, and we've seen almost every kitchen mishap imaginable.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
~ Stand Watie
Now he had done it.
~ Kirsten Anderson
Two different cops, and both of them fucked up the case. What are they using to train them in Chicago—old videos of the Three Boobs?" "I think that's Stooges," Roarke murmured.
~ J.D. Robb
demonstrate she attempted to slam her fist on her knee, missed and caught the medic in the crotch.
~ J.D. Robb
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
~ Woody Allen
I think every girl needs a good lip split story, I have one. I fell onto my front door doorknob coming back from the mailbox, once.
~ Carole Radziwill