Accidents Quotes
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You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.
Paul Newman
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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
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Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.
Daniel J. King
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I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.
Nobu Matsuhisa
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What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.
Gail Caldwell
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Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.
Nicholas Sparks
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We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
Terence McKenna
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I don't watch myself generally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.
Steve Martin
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
Jonathan Swift
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A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I had to amputate your arms"
Tommy Cooper
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One tragic example of this orientation is the rampant prescription of painkillers, which now kill more people each year in the United States than guns or car accidents.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.
Davone Bess
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If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
Elvis Costello
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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
Francis Chan
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
Michael Caine
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It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.
Tiger Woods
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I came to photography by accident.
Eve Arnold
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Home runs just come from accidents by me
Craig Biggio
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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
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The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.
William A. Dembski
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Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.
Ernest Greenwood
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
Herbert Spencer
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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
Dan Beachy-Quick
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.
Shirley Chisholm