Accident Quotes

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.

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.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

I became an actor by accident.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

I came to photography by accident.

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.

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.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

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

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.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

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

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

Photography is an accident.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

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

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by 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.

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

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

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

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

I never want to be pretentious.

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

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

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

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

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet.

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

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

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.

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

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

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

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

I became a children's author by accident.

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.