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Quotes About Accident

Winning the lottery isn't luck, it's an accident. Spending the proceeds wisely is luck.
~ Ricardo Semler
One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'.
~ Richard Dawkins
What is it about falling? He died of a fall. The poor thing never recovered after his fall. He broke his hip in a fall and was never the same. Death came relatively quickly after a fall in the back yard. How fucking far do these people fall? Off of buildings? Over spamming cataracts? Down manholes? Is it farther to the ground than it used to be?
~ Richard Ford
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI
~ Julia Cameron
Good God, what happened to ye? Shelton dropped the bucket of water he was carrying, unmindful that it spilled across the barn floor. I fell. Dougal picked up a brush and began to groom Poseidon. Shelton gave a silent whistle. Fell into what? A hammer? Something like that.
~ Karen Hawkins
Billie Jo's father brought in a pail of kerosene put it next to the stove, Billie Jo's ma thought it was water so she used it and ending up catching the pail on fire ma went to get pa and Billie Jo thought she was doing a good thing by getting rid of the pail that was on fire not knowing her mom was coming back into the house and caught her mom on fire and Billie Jo put out the flames on her mom with her hands.
~ Karen Hesse
She'd just rear-ended a cop car and she said that only the week before she'd been arrested shoplifting tortillas and salsa for a Sunday afternoon football party at her house. 'This is so not good,' she told me. 'Honestly, I have the worst luck.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I opened my mouth to say what a horrible accident, that I was an idiot, that I hadn't been looking where I was going and it was all my fault and blah-blah-blah, but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.
~ Karin Slaughter
John picked up a glass vase w/ flowers, dropping them on the floor). I'm going to call the police. (Aunt Lydia) Better duck first. (John)
~ Karin Slaughter
I've always found cherubs a bit sinister. The idea of winged babies flying around with no nappies on seems like an accident waiting to happen. There would be shit everywhere. If I saw a cherub flying about in real life it would terrify me, whereas a Cyclops, which is another mythical being, wouldn't scare me at all, as it's just a bloke with one eye. He'd be registered disabled and get a decent parking space in today's world.
~ Karl Pilkington
I never believed me mam when she finished a story with 'And they all lived happily ever after'. 'No, they didn't. I don't believe it,' I'd say. I prefered Humpty Dumpty – nice and short, and a realistic ending. He never hurt anyone, but he had a little accident and died. Shit happens. That's life, innit.
~ Karl Pilkington
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
~ Amy Hempel
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!
~ Brian Aldiss
I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.
~ Emily Blunt
It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.
~ Eugene O'Neill
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If men have a smell it's usually an accident.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Every single moment is a coincidence.
~ Douglas Coupland
Sometimes you've gotta wreck the truck to get the insurance money to make the payment on the truck.
~ Larry the Cable Guy
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
~ Alan King
Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?
~ Rob Ford
It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.
~ Johnny Moscato
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
~ Stephen Stills