“I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.”
Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.”
Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
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.”
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Glass Rainbow