Jinxing Quotes

#1. I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

Rob Corddry

#2. It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

Harriet Brown

#3. Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

Phyllis Diller

#4. Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.

Donald G. Firesmith

#5. Do you realize a fraction of the awful things you have let me in for? How on earth am I to remember whether I go in before the chef or after the footman? I shan't have a peaceful minute while I'm in this place.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

Noam Chomsky

#7. The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Albert Einstein

#8. Lazy in everything," said Ross, "but the search for excuses. Like two old pigs in their sty and as slow to move from their own patch of filth." Prudie

Winston Graham

#9. Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

Russell Peters

#10. Sin is not merely wrong doing; sin is essentially wrong adoring. Sin is the fastening of our hearts on any good, treasure, or security in life that replaces the good, treasure, and security of God.

Tony Reinke

#11. When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Bernie Mac

#12. Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

#13. I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.

Jim McMahon

#14. The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

Robert Mugabe

#15. You bookish little pervert.

Rachel Cohn