Accident Quotes

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

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.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

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.

Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

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

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

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

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

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

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

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

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

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

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

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.