I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. Votes: 1
Patricia HighsmithI just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. Votes: 1
Steven WrightIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. Votes: 1
Franklin D. RooseveltI never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. Votes: 1
Thomas A. EdisonEnlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiGreatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported. Votes: 0
Mary McLeod BethuneSometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. Votes: 0
Eric RobertsFour specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment Votes: 0
David Lloyd GeorgeThere is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident. Votes: 0
Paul VirilioThe sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build. Votes: 0
Gregory MaguireArtist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. Votes: 0
Don BlandingFame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Votes: 0
Mark TwainMore things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. Votes: 0
Jeff GreenfieldProjects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. Votes: 0
Dallas WillardI look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel. Votes: 0
John FrankenheimerThere is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related. Votes: 0
Francois MauriacWe are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth. Votes: 0
Venkatraman RamakrishnanThe novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. Votes: 0
Wole SoyinkaThen I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film. Votes: 0
Mike FiggisI don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. Votes: 0
Wole SoyinkaA christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotIn a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident . Votes: 0
Bruce Sterlingaccident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. Votes: 0
David GutersonAn accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceMan's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheMichael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him Votes: 0
Jeff ZuckerThe most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug. Votes: 0
Peter KayMichael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him. Votes: 0
Jeff ZuckerEven though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you. Votes: 0
Nastassja KinskiAn unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident. Votes: 0
James Luther AdamsSince my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people. Votes: 0
George C. WallaceI fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer. Votes: 0
Christopher AndersonI know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. Votes: 0
Richard AvedonThe invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Votes: 0
James NaismithProgress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity"¦It is a part of nature. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerIt's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. Votes: 0
Nick BantockNo bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenCyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself. Votes: 0
Paul VirilioAmores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident. Votes: 0
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituSuccess is an accident. Showing up, even if it's just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone. Votes: 0
Paul BudnitzIt was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences Votes: 0
Gianfranco FiniBecause normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. Votes: 0
Martin Cruz SmithStrong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill. Votes: 0
Julie B. BeckClary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245- Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareTelevision exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television. Votes: 0
Paul VirilioI find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. Votes: 0
Mal PeetI have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident. Votes: 0
Edie SedgwickOne time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes. Votes: 0
Mitch HedbergHe that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldNot to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. Votes: 0
Irvin D. YalomA weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. Votes: 0
Anne CarsonWithout history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. Votes: 0
Donald KaganThe more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident Votes: 0
Bill VaughanTo make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouNo birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value. Votes: 0
Gary ZukavThe space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. Votes: 0
Sally RideYou didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenIt was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. Votes: 0
Max PlanckI have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. Votes: 0
Stephen De StaeblerToo bad. Family members hit you by accident. Psychopathic whores tend to come back for more. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadMy parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. Votes: 0
Alan RickmanFor any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. Votes: 0
Sidney LumetDesign is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. Votes: 0
Robert L. PetersI received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. Votes: 0
Gloria EstefanHowever, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident. Votes: 0
Mitch AlbomWell, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth. Votes: 0
Wilford BrimleyI was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way Votes: 0
Adrian MitchellA beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. Votes: 0
Louis NizerIf a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving? Votes: 0
Mario AndrettiWe are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonA guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident. Votes: 0
Anquan BoldinThere is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteNot many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident. Votes: 0
James A. OwenIn real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year. Votes: 0
Beverley MitchellSygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident. Votes: 0
Woody AllenBut now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love. Votes: 0
Emily GiffinA good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamYou were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility. Votes: 0
Russel HonoreUltravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident. Votes: 0
Gary NumanMuch of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. Votes: 0
Sonia SotomayorI see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident . Votes: 0
Harvey PenickThe things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident. Votes: 0
Chuck KlostermanArt doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. Votes: 0
Nicholas MeyerI snorted heroin once by accident. It was amazing. But kids, don't snort heroin. It's too good. Votes: 0
Artie LangeMy father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident. Votes: 0
Jimmy CarrWhen people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing. Votes: 0
Shane HarperI don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. Votes: 0
Marilyn HackerJesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident. Votes: 0
Ben HoganJust start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. Votes: 0
Guy GarveyIt was the first car accident I had ever been in. It shakes you up a little bit. Votes: 0
Matt HasselbeckEither we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. Votes: 0
Thornton WilderSome of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident. Votes: 0
Desmond TutuI am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsI had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident. Votes: 0
Rita RudnerA boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident. Votes: 0
Adam YoungThere's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident Votes: 0
Josh SternThere's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!. Votes: 0
Lester LevensonDeath is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. Votes: 0
Albert Scott CrossfieldIt's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close. Votes: 0
Patrick JonesThe impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time. Votes: 0
Tibor FischerEvery event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. Votes: 0
Pearl S. BuckDeath is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauIf you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement. Votes: 0
Abdul KalamI always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. Votes: 0
Francis BaconMusic was sort of an accident for me. I love to do it. I can't imagine doing anything else. Votes: 0
Tristan PrettymanMost of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. Votes: 0
Isabel PatersonEvery job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get. Votes: 0
Moon Unit ZappaA long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. Votes: 0
Dan BuettnerIt was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part. Votes: 0
Ron EldardThe makeup person said oh my God what happened to you? I looked like I was in a car accident. Votes: 0
Cheri OteriThe greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. Votes: 0
Charles LambIf the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody! Votes: 0
Lauren HuttonI didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident. Votes: 0
Ian AstburyI only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! Votes: 0
Gwendoline ChristieIt was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident. Votes: 0
Sonny BonoThe fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. Votes: 2 Albert Einstein
After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. Votes: 1 Lou Gramm
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse. Votes: 1 James Longstreet
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.' Votes: 3 Mary Roach
Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. Votes: 8 Eric Roberts
It is much easier to drive without having an accident. Votes: 4 Alec Issigonis
I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough. Votes: 1 Olivier Martinez
I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover. Votes: 1 Jenny McCarthy
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. Votes: 3 Alexis Carrel