Inopportune Quotes

#1. Inspiration is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times.

Max Hawthorne

#2. Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

Elizabeth McCracken

#3. Sometimes you meet someone at an inopportune moment and it doesn't work out, but then you see them again five years later and you're in different places and it's a better time.

Mike Colter

#4. Her emotions were so raw that the hated tears were always just below the surface, waiting to escape at the most inopportune times. She felt like an emotional wreck and had to constantly battle for composure.

Laurann Dohner

#5. Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

Connie Brockway

#6. We're not making any official statements, especially when James Holden's in the room. No offense, but your track record for blurting information at inopportune moments is the stuff of legend.

James S.A. Corey

#7. But the dead, they have ghosts. Ghosts are very useful for haunting. Never forget the dead, Tula. They have their function. They sometimes speak at the most useful or inopportune times.

Cecil Castellucci

#8. People take power trips at the most inopportune times.

Lida Sideris

#9. Here's what I know: I eat mass quantities of red meat, curse religiously, sing out of tune but with conviction. I cry when it suits me, laugh when it's inopportune, read The New York Times obituaries and wedding announcements, out loud and in that order.

Julie Buxbaum

#10. There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Anton Chekhov

#11. I get the niggling feeling in my belly that says it's time for a new song. It hits at the most random, inopportune times. Fucking creative muse bitch. I stand up quick and grab a pen from the desk in the corner, flipping my arm over and finding a space between the tattoos.

C.M. Stunich

#12. But he didn't seem surprised to see her. 'Hey.'
'Hey, yourself.' Okay, that was stupid. Her grandmother used to say Hey, yourself. Great, she was turning into her grandmother at the most inopportune time. She didn't want to sound like a well-adjusted sixty-year-old.

Suzanne Brockmann

#13. You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. The truth is she was a fearless apprentice but lacked all talent for guided fornication. She never understood the charm of serenity in bed, never had a moment of invention, and her orgasms were inopportune and epidermic.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#15. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.

Peter David

#16. Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing - "because the joy of every new marriage a man contracted was so apt to be blighted by the inopportune funeral of a less recent bride.

Mark Twain

#17. Love wasn't something you decided. It was thrust upon you at the most inopportune times in your life. You didn't choose when or who to love, love chose you.

Holly Hood

#18. There were times, many, many times, when she just didn't get him. She'd heard on numerous occasions that men were bad, wicked creatures, who'd do terrible things at a moment's notice. You wore the wrong skirt or bent over at an inopportune time and BAM. They slipped their penises into you.

Charlotte Stein

#19. The most winning characteristic of the rather harsh Cetian temperament was curiosity, inopportune, and inexhaustible curiosity; Cetians died eagerly, curious as to what came next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#20. She had herself been sadly disappointed, for she had thought him a man of sense, certainly not one to be succumbing to childish ailments at inopportune moments.

Georgette Heyer

#21. Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee.

Emil M. Cioran

#22. The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.

Megan Whalen Turner

#23. We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Emile M. Cioran

#24. In life, unresolved issues always resurface, and usually at the most inopportune moments.

Toni L. Coleman Carter

#25. I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

K'naan

#26. If your master is surly, from getting up early
(And tempers are short in the morning),
An inopportune joke is enough to provoke
Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.

W.S. Gilbert

#27. In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Leon Trotsky

#28. She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#29. Quite a bit of his swearing was pure nautical genius.

Michael G. Manning

#30. Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

Alan Cohen

#31. But how can you live in the moment when all you want is for the moment to end?

Neal Shusterman

#32. Maybe that's life. Trading in one tragedy for a better tragedy.

Suanne Laqueur

#33. When I'm coming offstage after my show, I'm thinking about what's on my TiVo.

Tyra Banks

#34. There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.

Sri Aurobindo

#35. The Russians have fixed world chess.

Bobby Fischer

#36. This is the worst day of my life'. I groaned and put my head in my hands.
'You can't possibly know that. You might have something really awful going to happen to you later on. All your children burned to death or your nose cut off in a revolving door'.

Victoria Clayton