Accident Quotes

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

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

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

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

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

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

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

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

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.

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.

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.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

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

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

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

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.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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.

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

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

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.