Accident Quotes

When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.
Donny Osmond

Live, Mean, Down

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

Power, Person, Except

There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.'
Hulk Hogan

Cool, Down, Put

A lot happens by accident in poetry.
Howard Nemerov

Poetry, Happens

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
Howard Nemerov

Beautiful, Moving, Wonderful

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
Bear Grylls

Soldier, Year, Half

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
Padma Lakshmi

Love, Clothes, Ten

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.
Robert Lanza

Future, Technology, Done

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

Profession, Stardom

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.
Eric Roberts

Car, Sometimes, Times

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.
Rudy Giuliani

Design, America, Last

If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.
Victoria Justice

God, Nothing, Happen

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

Terrible, Passenger

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
Francis Thompson

Himself, Atheist, Believes

What men call accident is God's own part.
Philip James Bailey

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'
Amber Heard

Best, Car, Today

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Don DeLillo

Whole, Picture, Culture

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
Oliver Stone

Life, Means, Worth

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
Gary Bauer

Today, Children, Human

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
Jack Anderson

Hurt, Light, Sometimes

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
Michael Ondaatje

History, Same, Moment

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Phil Crosby

Change, Friend, Happen

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Mind, Said, Prepared

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life.
Margot Kidder

Life, Friend, Him

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

Job, After, Actually

A relationship is sent by God and accident.
Fiona Shaw

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.
Heather Mills

Mean, Full, Somewhere

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 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

Family, Stupid, Lost

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

Women, Two, Poets

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