Accident Quotes

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.
River Phoenix

Car, Die, Glorious

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Alan Rickman

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
Bono

Help, Writing, Song

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.
Joyce Carol Oates

Nothing, Universe, Physics

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

Parents, Theater

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.
Kesha

Started, Writer, Singer

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

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman

Life, Happy, End

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
Mary Baker Eddy

God, Truth, Science

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
John Malkovich

Everything, Die, Write

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.
Sally Ride

Time, After, Put

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Funny, Family, Great

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.
Thomas Frank

Good, Cool, Done

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

Become, Autism, Bus

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.
Robert Lanza

Life, Long, Physics

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky

Car, Impossible, Question

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams

Marriage, Counts

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
Cameron Diaz

Business, Fun, End

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

Before, Space, Shuttle

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
Daisaku Ikeda

Hope, Courage, Heart

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
Barbara Jordan

Made, America, Party

I became an actor by accident.
Christopher Walken

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

Consider, Novelist, Purely

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
Jason Reitman

Time, Design, Car

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?
Eric Liu

Time, Someone, Done

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

Consider, Novel, Novelist

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.
Kathryn Bigelow

History, Moment, Consider

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer

Work, Nature, Art

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
Fareed Zakaria

Love, Country, American

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

Wanted, Blueprint, Across

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