Quotes About Accident

I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.

Of course, there were no paper towels to clean up with…just hand dryers. I rubbed my wet fingers over the ice cream, creating a big wet spot right in the center of my chest. Oh, yeah, beauty and poise contest, here I come.

Are you okay?" she asked. "I'm fine. I'm totally up for going to Bird's party." "I don't think so. Not this late. How could you not see a baseball coming at you?" "It happened so fast." "Are you hungry? I could fix something--" She had to really be worried if she was offering to cook.

Y'know, I cut my finger on a mandoline once. I stole it, so I guess the universe said, 'Bitch, please.

What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.

Once, she had ridden her bicycle into a fence just because he had happened to drive past and wave at her.

He swallowed. He'd done that? He didn't have much memory of it, only of a quiet girl with big eyes and long dark hair. "Why would you be mortified? It was an accident." She snorted a little. "Right. I ran into your grandmother's mailbox because I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. It was all your fault for mowing the lawn without your shirt on." He stared down at her. "That's why you crashed?

Here was a woman, having a child by accident that she surely would come to love. As for me, through the accident of cancer I'd be leaving three children to grow up without my love.

it could be simply an accident of fate that our brains are too weak to understand themselves. Think of the lowly giraffe, for instance, whose brain is obviously far below the level required for self-understanding—yet it is remarkably similar to our brain.

I don't know why, but whenever I'd look at Amber, all determined and long-legged, I'd imagine her climbing out of a car wreck while the slow, sluggish passengers burned inside.

'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

I have had PTSD since I was in a car accident when I was 16.

They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

I've broken my ankle in two spots. Fortunately, it was a relatively clean break, so it's remained in position. The bone has remained in position. I don't require surgery. I will have to rest it, though. It's a broken ankle.

I jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.

I knocked stuff out of the medicine cabinet. Things rolled into the sink. 'Where's the aspirin?' I said. I knocked down more things. I didn't care. 'Goddamn it,' I said. Things kept falling.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.