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Quotes About Incident

I like Lord Hugh very much. It's true that he can be a little eccentric, but he's terribly clever. And he's a very good shot." All eyes swung back to Frances. "He shot Cousin Daniel in the shoulder," Sarah reminded her. "He's a very good shot when he's sober," Frances clarified. "Daniel said so.
~ Julia Quinn
Chic Murray once told me, he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, 'Did you fall?' He said, 'No, I'm trying to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.
~ Billy Connolly
The most talked about single incident in the history of the show was a young lady seated out in the audience in a tube top. And her name was called to be a contestant. And she jumped to her feet. And she began jumping up and down and out they came. She came on down and they came on out on CBS.
~ Bob Barker
And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault.
~ Bob Mortimer
The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.
~ Bob Uecker
No ma'am, I want you to say something that did happen.
~ Harper Lee
I hadn't been there ten minutes before there were three turds on the carpet.
~ Helen Fielding
In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.
~ Paul Merton
Many years ago, I was found in compromising circumstances in a dressing room by a security man. The other person was hiding.
~ Roger Allam
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
again. The disturbing influence of that one incident lasted
~ Slavomir Rawicz
One day in 1987 Fallows was standing at a window in a London bank waiting to be served when a would-be robber named Douglas Bath stepped in front of him, brandished a handgun and demanded money from the cashier. Outraged, Fallows told Bath to 'bugger off' to the back of the line and wait his turn, to the presumed approving nods of others in the queue. Unprepared for this turn of events, Bath meekly departed from the bank empty-handed and was arrested a short distance away.
~ Bill Bryson
President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
~ Chuck Grassley
Every incident in the history of the world, whether it was the flight of a gnat or a great battle, revealed by the very fact of its occurrence the mystery that was inherent in it.
~ Franz Werfel
Auch hat sich deine Berner Polizei ja nun wirklich ungeschickt benommen, man erschießt nun einmal keinen Hund, wenn Bach gespielt wird.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
~ Henry James
What is character but the determination of incident?
~ Henry James
There is always a place for chance in things.
~ Henry James
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
~ Sara Pascoe
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.
~ Klaus Kinski
Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.
~ Jake Paul
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
~ Steven Wright
It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
~ Joshua Slocum
The best things in life are the things you do by mistake.
~ Monika Zands