Quotes on Accident

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.

Author: Rick Allen

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.

Author: Rick Allen

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.

Author: Thomas Babington

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.

Author: Lauren Bacall

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.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

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.

Author: Leo Baekeland

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.

Author: Ludwig Beethoven

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

Author: Wilford Brimley

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.

Author: Olympia Brown

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.

Author: Dick Butkus

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

Author: Ryan Cabrera

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Author: Vincent Canby

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Author: Emile Cioran

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

Author: Peter Conrad

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Author: Michael Crichton

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.

Author: Don DeLillo

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

Author: John Edwards

One does not become a guru by accident.

Author: James Fenton

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

Author: Mike Figgis

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

Author: John Frankenheimer

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

Author: Paul Glaser

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Author: Carlo Goldoni

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

Author: Lou Gramm

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Author: Albert Gyorgyi

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Author: Alice Hamilton

Never insult anyone by accident.

Author: Robert Heinlein

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.

Author: Gregory Hines

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

Author: Alec Issigonis

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.

Author: Laurent Jalabert

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.

Author: Lara John

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.

Author: Barbara Jordan

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

Author: Nastassja Kinski

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

Author: Shirley Knight

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Author: Chuck Knox

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

Author: Sidney Lumet

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.

Author: John Malkovich

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Author: Paul Meyer

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.

Author: Ajay Naidu

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

Author: James Naismith

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.

Author: Howard Nemerov

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.

Author: Ted Nugent

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.

Author: Joyce Oates

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Author: Dick Patten

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.

Author: John Ransom

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Author: Alan Rickman

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

Author: Sally Ride

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.

Author: Margaret Sanger

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.

Author: Diane Sawyer

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Author: Friedrich Schiller

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Author: Wole Soyinka

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

Author: Wole Soyinka

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Author: Francis Thompson

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Author: Mark Twain

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.

Author: Al Unser

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.

Author: Ben Vereen

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

Author: Moon Zappa