Accidents Quotes - Page 25

• 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 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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• 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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• I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.

  Glen Duncan

  Design, Bears, Should

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• I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

  Kevin Warwick

  Believe, Fate, Born

  "Cyborg 1.0" by Kevin Warwick, www.wired.com. February 1, 2000.

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• I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

  Alberta Hunter

  People, Purpose, Has Beens

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• Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.

  Charles Poliquin

  Food, Health, Mouths

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• There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

  Pharrell Williams

  Mistake, Writing, Odds

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014

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• Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

  Dallas Willard

  Personal Transformation, Succeed, Projects

  "Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation".

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• The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, Thinking, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

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• Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.

  PZ Myers

  Law, Special, Important

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• To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Writing, Men

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.

  Shane Harper

  Life, Inspiring, People

  "God’s Not Dead". Interview with Daniaja Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

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• You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

  Greg Plitt

  Motivational, Excellence, Habit

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• No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

  Richard Dawkins

  Music, Moving, Doubt

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

  Leo Baekeland

  Photography, Dollars, Paper

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• We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.

  Price Pritchett

  Strong, Achievement, Excellence

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• Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hands, Opiates

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.65

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• Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

  Shirley Booth

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

  Raphael Soyer

  Kind, Certain, Brushes

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