Quotes About Accidental

Such is the universal desire for fame that those who achieve it accidentally or unwillingly will wait in vain for pity.

Smash the right two particles together in the right way and you get a bomb. That's us, Dex. Accidental fusion.

I think that may just be coincidence," Ulf said. "Sometimes we stumble over the truth. We think we find it, but it finds us.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

Is this what is meant by happenstance: the accidental, the unforeseen, the random music of circumstance and chance that might just send everything in your life down a wholly new path?

I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job.

I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I came out of a movie late, and he was still playing.

You could say that this was where an accidental wind blew him but I don't think so. I would rather think that in a long shot he saw a new way of measuring our jerky hopes and graceful rogueries and awkward sorrows, and that he came here from choice to be with us to the end. Like the plane coming down into the Glendale airport into the warm darkness.

Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

I seem to have accidentally got married, but it's only temporary.

The way of objective reflection turns the individual into something accidental, and thus turns existence into an indifferent, vanishing something.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

It was a quaint, quiet square, very typical of London, full of an accidental stillness.

Without planning to do so, the triumvirs arrived at the same time.

I'm not in public life except by accident.

It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

My first love was rock and funk. Rap was an accident.

Erra chi dice che le lettere guastano e' cervelli degli uomini, perché è forse vero in chi l'ha debole; ma dove lo truovano buono, lo fanno perfetto; perché el buono naturale congiunto col buono accidentale fa nobilissima composizione.

The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

An individual who drinks himself into a state of stuporous sickness runs the risk of succumbing to accidental death.

Pure love, pure friendship—these are ideals. These may exist now and then, and they are beautiful things to behold. But they are not goals. They are phenomenal and accidental.