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Quotes About Mishap

I am so clumsy! Like I fall off of bicycles.
~ Leigh Bardugo
I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.
~ Rick Riordan
Frank didn't drop you on purpose," she said. "He's not like that. He's just a little clumsy sometimes." "Oops," Leo said, in his best Frank Zhang voice. "Dropped Leo into a squad of enemy soldiers. Dang it!
~ Rick Riordan
See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson
~ Rick Riordan
That really was NOT fun, though. Well, the hitting-her-with-a-stick part, that was fun. But crashing into a concrete bear? NOT fun.
~ Rick Riordan
Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face.
~ Rick Riordan
I can't summon anymore gas! Leo warned. The His faced turned red. 'Wow, that came out wrong. I mean the burning kind.
~ Rick Riordan
It was bad luck for poor old Tommy.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
~ Woody Allen
Well I've fucked the olives. Not literally I might hasten to add!
~ David Nicholls
Stage One brought the predicted carnage, but with a side order of comedy. First though, Chris Froome, one of the most accident-prone men ever to reach the higher echelons of this sport, had his first mishap. The
~ David Walsh
We didn't do any of it on purpose. We're just … not very good at things.
~ David Wong
must've stepped in dog poop when I walked in the grass. And I knew EXACTLY where it happened, too. SQUISH I took my shoe off and went to the front of the room to tell Mrs. Pope about my situation. But I think Mrs. Pope thought I was trying to skip out on the pop quiz, because she gave me
~ Jeff Kinney
she flew over the handlebars head on into the license plate.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Oh, I got this the time I ran into the back of the bus.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Someone had blundered.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.
~ Cilla Black
My weave fell off. I was running in PE, and it got caught in a tree. People were looking at me funny.
~ GloZell
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
~ Patrick Stewart
I crashed my bicycle on the way to my first date with my ex-girlfriend and was cautioned by the police.
~ James Norton
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
~ Mark Oliphant
I once got my stiletto caught in my horse's tail on stage and went flying into the audience. It was a mental gig, so I think the crowd thought it was part of the show.
~ Alison Goldfrapp
Besides Getting my ass kicked, my main accomplishment on this trip has been to massacre an incredible number of completely innocent clothes. I'm the Joseph Stalin of laundry.
~ Richard Kadrey
It's fizzing the wrong way!
~ Roald Dahl