Accident Quotes

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

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.

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.

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.