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Quotes About Mishap

There's no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.
~ Kathy Bryson, Restless Spirits
I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them.
~ Jennifer Echols
The two of them went down in a heap, with not even a turkey to break their fall.
~ Eoin Colfer
Mulch poked his head through from the passenger area. His face was slightly green. "I had a little accident," he said. No one inquired further.
~ Eoin Colfer
It looks like two alpacas fucking, mostly," he said apologetically. "Of course, sometimes, the boy can't get his boy parts past the girl's furry ass, and he needs a little help, so then it looks like two alpacas fucking while their handler's giving the one on top a handjob.
~ Amy Lane
I rolled my ankle and alienated your youngest sister," Deacon snapped, out of patience with his day. "Put me on the back of a horse and let's see if I can raze the town!
~ Amy Lane
Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.
~ Ridley Pearson
On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten.
~ Robert Harris
I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something. --Sheriff Toots Burns.
~ Larry McMurtry
race—but over the course of the year, as the uncertainty grows, his odds of mishap increase.
~ Zvi Bodie
Well, it took me over two hours to find Frencescos keys which was disappointing but I did go to Venice for free and I didnt fall into the canal on the way home like a twat.
~ Derren Victor Brown
They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.
~ Jerry Coleman
if no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation.
~ Erik Larson
Not to mention the fact that it was making horrible dents in her best Chinese carpet.
~ Angie Sage
We set off without them, and we were making good time until we had a small technical problem—a large technical problem, actually. Silas put his foot through the bottom of the boat.
~ Angie Sage
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong in everybody involved.
~ Robert Fulghum
While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.
~ Henny Youngman
blundered straight into the table nest: the
~ Robert Galbraith
Actually, Hamilton's exploding cannon may have killed as many as six of his men and wounded four or five others. Some critics blamed inadequate training for the mishap, but the general dissipation of troops addicted to whoring and drinking was more likely to blame.
~ Ron Chernow
someone, probably Heidi, ran into the coffee
~ Lisa Gardner
Mr. Barbecue-Smith was tossed to the floor.
~ Aldous Huxley
No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants
~ Stephen King
I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent.
~ Joan Bauer
I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.
~ Daniel Radcliffe