Accident Quotes

Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

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.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

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.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

Never insult anyone by accident.

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

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

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

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

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.

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

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

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

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.

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

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.