Accidents Quotes - Page 10

• My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

  Gary Lutz

  Writing, Dark, Careers

  "Newly fraught and alien". Interview with David Winters, www.3ammagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The middle section of Atonement, the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie's trek to the Channel and Briony's experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel…. There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes — the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression — into his narrative, and in a magical love scene.

  Noah Richler

  Art, Father, Writing

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• I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or mediocre people, except in the rarest of accidents. Creativity is a product of desire, thought, experience, experimentation and inner conviction. Taken together, these five qualities imply intelligence and commitment.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Believe, Taken, Creativity

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• Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

  Jon Foreman

  Blue, Sky, Stories

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• Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

  Ken Macrorie

  Writing, Good Writing, Plans

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• Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

  Timothy Keller

  Honor, Creation, God Image

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• People are valuable regardless of the color of their skin. You can be open about it and talk about it. You don't have to pretend that you are not different, but you can learn about those differences God didn't say, 'Ooh, I made you brown on accident.' He made them that color on purpose. And if you do not have friendships with other races, then ask God to bring you some. He will.

  Nicole C. Mullen

  Race, Color, Differences

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• We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, and risk will be no more.

  Philip K. Howard

  Motivation, Inspiration, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

  Erik Estrada

  Broken, Motorcycle, Ribs

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• Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

  Jeff Zucker

  Eye, People, Traffic

  "NBC Offered to Bump Dateline for Jacko Outtakes" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2003.

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• What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

  Anne Carson

  Burning, Body, Language

  Anne Carson (2000). “Plainwater: essays and poetry”, Vintage Books

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• I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Guitar, Kind, Playing Guitar

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• For when down on the knees
  The man (or god) stretches the arms
  In giving,
  It is no accident the hands
  Are curled like bowls or cups,
  For he offers self, yet
  Begs it back again.

  Edith Tiempo

  Men, Self, Hands

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• It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

  Diane Frolov

  Sleep, Cities, Church

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• I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

  Simon Van Booy

  Believe, World, Want

  Simon Van Booy (2007). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, Turtle Point Pr

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• It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

  Michael Foley

  Art, Design, Trying

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Rain, Artist, Clouds

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• 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.

  Alexis Carrel

  Distance, Destiny, Nightfall

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• Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

  John Berger

  Struggle, Achievement, Landscape

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• I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

  Jackson Pollock

  Use, Deny, Expressionism

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.

  Warren Buffett

  Heart, Car, Daggers

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• If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Feb 28, 2013

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• You do not grow stronger by accident - you grow stronger by intention.

  Rick Warren

  Stronger, Intention, Grows

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• Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Writing, Years, People

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

  Clarence Day

  Giving, World, Jinn

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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