Accident Quotes

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

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.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

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

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.

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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.

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

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.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

I really feel that if it wasn't for the accident, I'd still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.