Accidents Quotes - Page 20

• When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Lying, Writing, Europe

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• Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

  Vic Morrow

  Jobs, War, Flower

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• It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

  Lucas Neff

  Happy Accidents, Ridiculous, Series

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

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• If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

  Elvis Costello

  Education, Ifs

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• You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

  Billy Joel

  Education, School

  Song: You're Only Human

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• I became a children's author by accident.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Children

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• I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

  Michael Shannon

  Growing Up, Acting, Sound

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• Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

  George C. Wallace

  Suffering Of Others, People, Littles

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• I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone.

  Peta Wilson

  Actresses

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• I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

  Kevin Rooney

  Real, Car, Kind

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• 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.

  William Jackson

  Home, Character, Simple

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• As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Feelings, Rare Occasion, May

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• What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

  Robert Breault

  Pride, Sweat, Effort

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• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

  Clarence Day

  Life, Stars, Dark

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• There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Mistake

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• Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!

  David Berg

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

  David W. Orr

  Perspective, Growth, Environmental

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

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• Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Ends, Chains

  Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.25, Penguin

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• There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, People, Able

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• The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.

  James Whistler

  Flower, Artist, Men

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Reason, Fitting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.57, Penguin

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• He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stronger, Doe, Serious

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• The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Song, Art

  'Hart-leap Well' (1800) pt. 2, l.1

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• Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

  Willa Cather

  People, World, Ugly

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Journey, Choices, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.304

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