
“I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Lord Darlington, Act III
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Context: My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
“Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares