Quotes and Sayings about Accident
"Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time."
- Renata Adler
(Related: Time, People, Accident, Boredom, Cruelty, Sleep)
"You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Accidents, Result, Students, Teaching, Years)
"We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Design, Music, Accident, Interest, Investigation, Trying)
"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Car, Life, People, Accidents, Day, Hurt, Will)
"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Accident, Interest, Irony, Pretty)
"And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Accident, May, Now, Today)
"Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed."
- Rick Allen
(Related: People, Accident, Now, Self)
"I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident."
- Jack Anderson
(Related: People, Accident, Hurt, Light, Order)
"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
- Aristotle
(Related: Life, Accidents, Circumstances, Dignity, Grace, Man)
"Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident."
- Dick Armey
(Related: Accident)
"Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials."
- Avicenna
(Related: Knowledge, Accidents, Beginnings, Causes, Study)
"None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours."
- Thomas Babington
(Related: Accident, Being, Popular, Security)
"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."
- Lauren Bacall
(Related: Accident, Profession)
"Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Accident, Act, Meaning, Thinking)
"Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars."
- Leo Baekeland
(Related: Accident)
"What men call accident is God's own part."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Men, God, Accident)
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Accidents, American, Disasters)
"Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Accidents, Gravity)
"Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence."
- Henry Walter Bates
(Related: Time, Accident, Animals)
"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Accident, Will)
"The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: History, Accident, Heroism)
"I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion."
- Joan Blades
"If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident."
- Manute Bol
(Related: God, Accident, Kids, Play)
"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Accident, Fate)
"Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?"
- Shirley Booth
(Related: Men, Death, Accidents, Crisis)
"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: Accident)
"Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate."
- Olympia Brown
(Related: Accident, Circumstances, Fate, Majority)
"The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo."
- Art Buchwald
(Related: Accidents, Americans, states, Statistics, United)
"Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework."
- Dick Butkus
(Related: Accident)
"I started playing guitar kind of by accident."
- Ryan Cabrera
(Related: Accident, Guitar)
"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
- Vincent Canby
(Related: Accident, April, Television)
"I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky."
- Orson Scott Card
(Related: Money, Being, Career, Writing)
"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Death, Men, Life, Accident, Day, Evil, Judgment, Justice)
"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?"
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Accident)
"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Action, Failure, Evil, Right, Wrong)
"But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control."
- Jonathan Coe
(Related: Control, Choices, Woman)
"Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Religion, Accidents, Intolerance)
"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
- Peter Conrad
(Related: Accident, Circumstance, Job)
"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast."
- Peter Cooper
(Related: History, Accident, Events, Reason, Result)
"The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you."
- Alan Coren
(Related: God, Accidents, Act)
"Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Car, American)
"I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood."
- Michael Crichton
(Related: Accident, Blood, Victims)
"Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident."
- Phil Crosby
(Related: Change, Friend, Accident)
"I don't think there's any accidents in my life."
- Billy Ray Cyrus
(Related: Life, Accidents)
"In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed."
- Serge Daney
(Related: Age, Emotions, Reality)
"One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement."
- Edgar Degas
(Related: Art, Accident, Nothing)
"It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: Accident, Culture, First, Independence, Intention)
"I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Business, Accident, Career, End, Fun, Now)
"If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident."
- Mary Baker Eddy
(Related: Science, God, Truth, Christianity, Accident, Law)
"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
- Thomas A. Edison
(Related: Work, Accident, Inventions)
"I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future."
- John Edward
(Related: Soul, Accident, Future, Illness, Journey)
"I didn't get to the Senate by accident."
- John Edwards
(Related: Accident, Senate)
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Death, Fear, Accident, Risk)
"I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Work)
"Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Mistake, Symbol)
"We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children."
- Gloria Estefan
(Related: Accidents, Children, Country)
"ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked."
- Dakota Fanning
(Related: Car, Accident)
"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it."
- George Farquhar
(Related: Men, Life, Money, Accidents, Value, Worth)
"One does not become a guru by accident."
- James Fenton
(Related: Accident)
"Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Accident, Drama, Film)
"If men have a smell it's usually an accident."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Men, Accident)
"I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Accident, Actors)
"You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Control, Accident)
"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him."
- Morgan Freeman
(Related: Life, Accident, End, Irony)
"A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Accident, Man)
"There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were."
- Leif Garrett
(Related: People, Accident, Drugs)
"I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident."
- Gordon Getty
(Related: Music, Accident)
"When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all."
- Boutros Boutros Ghali
(Related: People, Accident, Will)
"As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine."
- Ryan Giggs
(Related: Life, Children)
"There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design."
- Rudy Giuliani
(Related: Design, Accident, America, Crime, Years)
"We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it."
- Paul M. Glaser
(Related: Accident)
"One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
- Alma Gluck
(Related: Goal, Accident, Study)
"If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
- Alma Gluck
(Related: Work, Goal, Accident, Advice, Study)
"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."
- Carlo Goldoni
(Related: Accident, Actions, Fortune)
"Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member."
- Kim Gordon
"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
- Stephen Jay Gould
(Related: Accidents, Complexity, Principles, Results, Understanding)
"After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Accident, End, Pretty, Sheep)
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Character, Accident, Fame, Popularity)
"More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy."
- Jeff Greenfield
(Related: Politics, Accident, Exhaustion)
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Accident, Discovery, Meeting, Mind)
"Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: Accidents)
"I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets."
- Marilyn Hacker
(Related: Women, Accident, First, Poets)
"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
- Alice Hamilton
(Related: Accident, Disease, Legislation, Occupation)
"Never insult anyone by accident."
- Robert A. Heinlein
(Related: Accident, Insult)
"In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say."
- John Hench
(Related: Movies, Action, Hope, Accidents, Actor, Cartoons, May, Nothing, Play, Trying, Want)
"I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident."
- Patricia Highsmith
(Related: Car, Accident)
"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."
- Gregory Hines
(Related: Accident, Spirit, Talk)
"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."
- Augustine of Hippo
(Related: Time, Accidents, Attention, Circumstances, Connection)
"Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power."
- J. G. Holland
(Related: Power, Accident, Measure)
"There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Nature, Accidents, Humility, Moods, Study, Will, Wonder)
"Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind."
- Jacky Ickx
(Related: Time, Accident, Trees)
"It is much easier to drive without having an accident."
- Alec Issigonis
(Related: Accident)
"It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there."
- William Jackson
(Related: Home, People, Accident)
"It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well."
- Laurent Jalabert
(Related: Accident, End, Quitting, Today, Want)
"You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series."
- Derek Jeter
(Related: World)
"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."
- Lara St. John
(Related: Accident, Present, Wrong)
"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."
- Lara St. John
(Related: Thought, Being, Pretty, Weeping)
"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: Accident, America, Americans, Party)
"You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: People, Accident, Want, Years)
"It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: Funny, Being, First)
"The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental."
- Akhmad Kadyrov
"Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born."
- Donald Kagan
(Related: History, Accident)
"There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst."
- Frida Kahlo
(Related: Life, Accidents)
"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: War)
"Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: Accidents, Nations, Will)
"Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things."
- Edward Kennedy
(Related: Dad, Accident, Now, Trouble)
"I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money."
- Joseph P. Kennedy
(Related: Money, Time, Act, Learning, Today)
"Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Life, Friend, Growth, Accident, Months, Personal growth, Remarkable)
"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."
- Ben E. King
(Related: Career, Cheating)
"I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number."
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
(Related: Accidents, Intemperance)
"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."
- Nastassja Kinski
(Related: Accident, Help)
"It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor."
- Shirley Knight
(Related: Accident, Actor, Film)
"Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident."
- Chuck Knox
(Related: Accident, Nothing)
"When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write."
- Chantal Kreviazuk
(Related: Life, Time, Lie, Accident, Europe, First, Traveling)
"I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context."
- John Kricfalusi
(Related: Idea, Character, Accident)
"Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten."
- Milan Kundera
(Related: Accidents, Criticism)
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident."
- Charles Lamb
(Related: Action, Accident, Pleasure)
"I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details."
- Brooke Langton
(Related: Car, Accident, Being)
"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
- Norman Lear
(Related: Accidents)
"So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident."
- Michael Ledeen
(Related: History, God, Accident, Earth, Error)
"The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across."
- Mike Leigh
(Related: Poetry, Accidents, Film, Relationships, Spirit)
"The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts."
- David Letterman
(Related: Thought, Spring, Water, Weather)
"The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change."
- Edward Levi
(Related: Change, Accidents, Cause, Emotions, Events, Reason)
"Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns."
- Carl Levin
(Related: Laws, Prevention)
"We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Encouraging, Accidents, Responsibility, Result, Safety, Wrong)
"Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods."
- Bill Lipinski
(Related: Life, Quality, Accidents, Safety)
"I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have."
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: Car, Men, Work, Accidents, Man, Want)
"Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse."
- James Longstreet
(Related: War, Mistake, Accidents, Battle, Being, Troops, Wilderness)
"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."
- Sidney Lumet
(Related: Accident)
"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen."
- Sidney Lumet
(Related: Work, Accident)
"Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect."
- Patrick MacGill
(Related: Health, Accident, Attention, Sickness)
"Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Accidents, Racing, Ski)
"Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance."
- John Malkovich
(Related: Accident, Want)
"I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: People, Accident, First, Lady)
"The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid."
- Branford Marsalis
(Related: People, Successful, Jazz, Listening, Musicians, Now, Right)
"I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Car, Life, Accident, Boxing, Old, Years)
"I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Family, Opportunity, Accident)
"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."
- Rachel McAdams
(Related: Eye, Hurt)
"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
- Bobby McFerrin
(Related: Birthday, Time, Accident, Living, Present)
"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Accidents, Fathers)
"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
- Golda Meir
(Related: Heart, Accident, Public)
"Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things."
- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Art, Accident, Trying)
"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Accident, Commitment, Effort, Excellence, Planning, Productivity, Result)
"Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name."
- Alice Meynell
(Related: Travel, Accidents, Habits, Memory, Name, Spirit)
"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life."
- Arthur Miller
(Related: Life, Theater)
"In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year."
- Beverley Mitchell
(Related: Car, Life, Accident, Friends)
"Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions."
- Vic Morrow
(Related: War, Work, Accident, Flowers, Injury, Job, Years)
"In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you."
- Gerry Mulligan
(Related: Awareness, Fact, First, Listening, Play)
"We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life."
- A. J. Muste
(Related: Life, Peace, War, Accident, Want)
"My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part."
- Ajay Naidu
(Related: Accident, Acting, First, Job, School)
"The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'"
- James Naismith
(Related: Accident, Basketball, Boys, Invention, Play)
"A lot happens by accident in poetry."
- Howard Nemerov
(Related: Poetry, Accident)
"Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful."
- Howard Nemerov
(Related: Accident, First, Writer, Years)
"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."
- Simon Newcomb
(Related: History, Science, Accident, Building, Discovery, Washington)
"A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art."
- Louis Nizer
(Related: Art, Work, Nature, Accident, Lady, Old)
"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."
- Ted Nugent
(Related: Accident, Alcohol, Children, Country, Drugs, Parents, Today, Will)
"Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity."
- Joyce Carol Oates
(Related: Accident, Divinity, Laws, Nothing, Physics, Universe)
"The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat."
- Michael Ondaatje
(Related: History, Accident, Being, Books)
"We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident."
- Francis Parkman
(Related: Men, Accident, Animals, Horses)
"Accidents will happen in the best regulated families."
- John Dos Passos
(Related: Accidents, Will)
"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur
(Related: Accidents, Chance, Favors, Mind)
"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."
- Dick Van Patten
(Related: Accident)
"It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: Life, Nature, Living, Man)
"I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental."
- Pele
(Related: Life, Men, Will)
"I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left."
- Pauley Perrette
(Related: Life, Accident, College, Scandal, School)
"Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles."
- John L. Phillips
(Related: Progress, Accident, Space)
"I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall."
- River Phoenix
(Related: Car, Accident, Day, Want)
"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: History, Accidents)
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
- Plato
(Related: Work, Accident, Inventions, Worth)
"Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways."
- Plato
(Related: Accidents, Man)
"With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art."
- Sydney Pollack
(Related: Art, Movies, Work, Accident, Beginning, Culture, Popular)
"Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it."
- Richard Pound
(Related: Cheating, Doctors, Nothing, Scientists)
"Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."
- J. B. Priestley
(Related: Change, Accidents, Man)
"Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Work, Idea, Accident, Chance)
"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."
- John C. Ransom
(Related: Accident, Now, Sense, Words)
"My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Accident, Parents, Theater)
"Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Talent, Accident, Responsibility)
"The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Accident, Space)
"After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Time, Accident, Safety, Space, Wrong)
"No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Accidents, Space)
"Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident."
- Eric Roberts
(Related: Car, Accident)
"Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Life, Accidents, Folly, Help)
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Related: Politics, Accident, Nothing)
"Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: People, Accident, American, Country, Reason, Senate, Will)
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Quality, Accident, Effort, Result)
"I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Love, God, Mathematics, Nothing, Universe)
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race."
- Margaret Sanger
(Related: Accident, Children, Deep, Ignorance, Motherhood, Race, Result, Will, Yearning)
"We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming."
- Diane Sawyer
(Related: Accident, Country, State)
"The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents."
- Bob Schaffer
(Related: History, Accidents, Being, News, Politicians)
"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Accident, Chance, Destiny)
"I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Accidents, Economy, Play)
"In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Life, People, Accidents, Day, Will)
"If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French."
- Charles de Secondat
(Related: First, Man, Nation, Ruin)
"There are no small accidents on this circuit."
- Ayrton Senna
(Related: Accidents)
"It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen."
- Ayrton Senna
(Related: Accidents, Risk, Saying)
"Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health."
- Michael Servetus
(Related: Health, Accident, Man)
"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
(Related: Time, Friendship, Accidents, Foreigners, World)
"I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained."
- David Soul
(Related: Actor)
"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
- Wole Soyinka
(Related: Accident)
"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
- Wole Soyinka
(Related: Accident)
"The gun went off accidentally."
- Phil Spector
"Is anything accidental?"
- Norman Spinrad
"These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new."
- John Steinbeck
(Related: Life, Time, Day, Deep, Mind, Words)
"When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory."
- Jackie Stewart
(Related: Death, Accident, Fire)
"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."
- Ryan Stiles
(Related: Control, Accident)
"I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Music, Accident, College, Folk, Kids)
"But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy."
- Oliver Stone
(Related: Life, Accident, Fault, Question, Result, Worth)
"An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."
- Francis Thompson
(Related: Accident, Man)
"There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens."
- Leon Trotsky
(Related: Car, Accident, Question)
"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Accident, Name)
"If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good."
- Al Unser
(Related: Accident, Right, Risk)
"Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then."
- Ninette de Valois
(Related: Dance, Accident)
"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Possibility, May)
"Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature."
- Ben Vereen
(Related: Accident, Trying, Years)
"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."
- Judith Viorst
(Related: Love, Accident, Tax)
"It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means."
- Paul Virilio
(Related: Politics, War, Accident, Will)
"Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people."
- George C. Wallace
(Related: People, Accident, Suffering)
"It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental."
- Max Webber
(Related: Art)
"A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us."
- Rowan Williams
(Related: Time, Accidents, Environment, Limits, Sense)
"I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents."
- William John Wills
(Related: Fear, Accidents)
"The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man."
- Chauncey Wright
(Related: Intelligence, Science, Accidents, Causes, Man)
"The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them."
- Gary Wright
(Related: Idea, Accident, Sound)
"So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out."
- Michael York
(Related: Work, Purpose, Accident, Destiny, Intention, Titles, Trade)
"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Accident, Job, Jobs)
"Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him."
- Jeff Zucker
(Related: People, Accident, Eyes)