Accidental Quotes

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

Is anything accidental?

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

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.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.