Accidents famous quotes
07-14-2025
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They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
-- A. A. Milne -
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.
-- Albert M. Greenfield -
I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.
-- Alberta Hunter -
It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
-- Alec Issigonis -
I think life's too complex to be an accident.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.
-- Allison Glock -
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.
-- Amy Grant -
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
-- Andrew Davidson -
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
-- Ansel Adams -
The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident
-- Austin Farrer -
There are no small accidents on this circuit.
-- Ayrton Senna -
Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.
-- Barbara Holland -
You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
-- Billy Joel -
I don't think there's any accidents in my life.
-- Billy Ray Cyrus -
There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.
-- Brian Tracy -
I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.
-- Charles Poliquin -
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
-- Chauncey Wright -
I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.
-- Christopher Anderson -
For me, everything has always been an accident.
-- Craig Charles -
accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
-- David Guterson -
Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.
-- David Levithan -
Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.
-- Dick Armey -
Now we average 90 accidents a day and often it's as high as 100
-- Don Kelly -
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
-- Donald Kagan -
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
-- Dorothea Lange -
Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.
-- Elizabeth Lowell -
If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
-- Elvis Costello -
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
-- Epictetus -
But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.
-- Eva Mendes -
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
-- Frida Kahlo -
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
-- Gary Numan -
It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences
-- Gianfranco Fini -
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
-- Gordon Getty -
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
-- Grace Jones -
So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.
-- Hector Bianciotti -
Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
-- Helen Keller -
Nothing is or can be accidental with God.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
-- Herbert Spencer -
Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.
-- Jack Benny -
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
-- Jackson Pollock -
I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
-- Jackson Pollock -
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.
-- James Luther Adams -
It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
-- James Salter -
Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.
-- Jennifer Morla -
Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.
-- Jim Lee -
I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
-- John Frankenheimer -
Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.
-- John Gardner -
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
-- Joseph Conrad -
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
-- Larry Wall -
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
-- Lauren Bacall -
The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.
-- Laurence Steinberg -
There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.
-- Lester Levenson -
The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.
-- Li Yizhong -
It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.
-- Lucas Neff -
If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.
-- Margaret Millar -
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
-- Mario Puzo -
Some things happen by accident - embrace them.
-- Mario Testino -
Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.
-- Mary McLeod Bethune -
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
-- Mike Figgis -
Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.
-- Moon Unit Zappa -
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
-- Nastassja Kinski -
Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.
-- Paul Budnitz -
We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.
-- Paul Michael Glaser -
I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone.
-- Peta Wilson -
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
-- Pietro Metastasio -
Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?
-- Renata Adler -
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
-- Robert Silverberg -
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
-- Sally Ride -
It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet.
-- Shemar Moore -
The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .
-- Sidney Lumet -
I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.
-- Stephen De Staebler -
Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
-- T. S. Eliot -
The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
-- Thomas Carlyle -
In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.
-- Wayne Dyer
