Accidents Quotes
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If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.
Angelina Jolie
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Wall Street professionals know that acting on "inside" tips will break a man more quickly than famine, pestilence, crop failures, political readjustments or what might be called normal accidents. There is no asphalt boulevard to success in Wall Street or anywhere else. Why additionally block traffic?
Edwin Lefevre -
You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
Billy Joel -
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?
Ben Maddow -
In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
Bruce Sterling -
Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.
Howard Blum -
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer
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In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.
Scott Glenn -
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 -
Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.
Nancy Leveson -
We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway.
William C. Dement -
The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.
Tom Shadyac -
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Charles Dickens
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Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.
Alan S. Kesselheim -
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 -
If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.
Margaret Millar -
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.
Alex Faickney Osborn -
I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
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
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My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.
Colin Callender -
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
William Butler Yeats -
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
Willa Cather