Quotes About Accident

My accident was the result of incredible fate, with me spinning in a place I shouldn't have, with a car coming at a speed it shouldn't have, and hitting me with the sharpest and strongest thing that it has, which is the nose, in the most vulnerable part of the car, which is between the side part and the front wheel.

The memories are vague of the accident. I remember coming out of the pitlane with cruise control, letting it go and then losing control of the car. I remember my hands frantically operating the steering wheel trying to recover control of the car, then this big, big noise and nothing more.

A tragic car accident put me in a wheelchair and dashed my hopes and dreams for the future.

I look at safety as, you know, there's active and passive. Passive is how do you survive a crash. Active is accident avoidance. And so that's real-time information to you, as a driver, and to your car, to the wheels of a car that will get you out of a bad situation.

I was at a birthday party and a truck backed up and the wheels ran over my chest. I lost part of my lung and my liver.

I've been on sets where I broke my ankle on a television show doing a stunt playing Arthur in 'Camelot.' That was because it was really rushed, and it hadn't been thought through properly.

I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the '80s by accident - a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover.

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

My media career came about by accident. In 2006 I was introduced to Roger Ailes, the President of Fox News Channel, by a friend of mine who was an executive producer. Ailes put me on the air one day, and one week later, I was offered a contract.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

When someone's eyesight is not right and he is asked to drive a bus then accident will certainly take place.

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there.

Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.

I didn't fracture my neck, I didn't break it, but technically it's actually worse. The ligament holding the C2 ruptured, so my disc hit my spinal cord.