Accidents Quotes
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In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
Bruce Sterling
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Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.
Nick Cohen
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
Ernest Hemingway
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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
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
Bill Vaughan
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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
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I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right time. Having the right haircut. It's so mad to think that it happened in the way that it happened.
Boy George Culture Club
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I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
Al Hirschfeld
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Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.
John Gardner
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History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
David Drake
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You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.
Jaden Smith
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A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer
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The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.
Wayne Hale
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The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.
Tom Hayden
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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
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I shot 'Fruitvale Station' on super-16, and then I shot a movie called 'The Harvest' on 35mm, and then I shot 'Little Accidents' on 2-perf 35.
Rachel Morrison
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Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.
Shinichi Suzuki
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The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.
Bill Oberst Jr.
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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
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Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.
Nancy Leveson
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The discovery of penicillin was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
Alexander Acosta
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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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My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.
Gary Lutz
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Charles Dickens