Accident Quotes

I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.

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.

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.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

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

We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

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

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

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.

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.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

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.

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.

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.