Accident Quotes

For me, everything has always been an accident.
Craig Charles

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.
Craig Charles

Alone, Everything, Career

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

Music, Kids, Child

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
Beverley Mitchell

Life, Car, Real

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.
Gary Wright

Happy, Idea, Quite

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

While, Blood, Drawing

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
Joe Barton

Power, Become, Seriously

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
Goran Ivanisevic

Good, Car, Friend

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.
John Edwards

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'
Robert Greenwald

Money, Addiction, Off

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.
Andy Samberg

Past, Parents, Night

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
Maeve Binchy

Time, Great, Home

I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.
John Edward

Future, Leaving, Before

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
John C. Ransom

Words, Sense, Between

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Michael York

Work, Two, Destiny

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
Patrick MacGill

Health, Perfect, Matter

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.
Jeff Zucker

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
Ryan Cabrera

Guitar, Playing, Started

My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.
Boris Trajkovski

Life, Faith, Important

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.
Ariel Dorfman

Men, History, Down

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.
Dick Butkus

Good, Happens, Mental

They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit.
Gregory Hines

Talk, Spirit, Touch

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Alice Hamilton

Disease, Occupation, Providing

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
Vic Morrow

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
Brad Meltzer

Greatest, Perfect, Parent

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

Looking, Run, Seeing

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.
Takeshi Kitano

Life, Thought, Film

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
Helen Frankenthaler

Control, Whole, Once

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
Nicholas Meyer

Art, Happen, Trying

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
Donald Kagan

History, Born, Prisoners

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