I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Marilyn Hacker

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

I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.
Pauley Perrette

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
John Kricfalusi

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Stephen Stills

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato

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

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

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
Olivier Martinez

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
Ryan Cabrera

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

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

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
Olivier Martinez

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Emile M. Cioran

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Renata Adler

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

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
Manute Bol

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