Quotes About Incident

Cowboys of the Old West were workers, not gunslingers, and they did not go looking for trouble. But when trouble found them, the rules were unequivocal. If someone was killed in a fair fight, that was not murder, it was an incident. On the other hand, shooting an unarmed or fleeing man ~ even if he was a sworn enemy ~ was strictly forbidden, and transgressors were quickly brought to frontier justice.

It was eventually revealed that the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was written before the alleged incident – i.e., the document was simply awaiting an excuse to activate it.

Here am I, sweating my brains out to introduce a really sensational incident into your dull and disreputable little police investigation, and you refuse to show a single spark of enthusiasm.

The untoward incident cast a certain gloom over the breakfast table, though Wimsey, who felt his sides clapping together like an empty portmanteau, was only too happy to devour his eggs and bacon and coffee in peace.

The incident had that rich savor of the ludicrous which neither pity nor charity can destroy. Unfortunately, she could not in decency share it with anybody; she could only enjoy it in lonely ecstasies of mirth.

The driver wound down the window and leaned out. Had a crash then? he shouted at them. Yes. Ha! he said and drove on

Anything that happens, happens.

Henry Footit was run over yesterday - that was his dog. One of those smooth-haired fox terriers, rather stout and quarrelsome, that butchers always seem to have.

smashing into the wreck, mere inches separating him from the accident.

I remember years ago I was an extra, just an extra, and instead of asking me to move - he was a big fella - the director just picked me up and moved me. And I headbutted him. You know, he shouldn't have done that, but I shouldn't have done that either. I just done it.

The '7500' is with Leslie Bibb. It's a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It's going to do what 'Jaws' did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!

There was an incident in Argentina when I was making a film called 'The Warrior and the Sorceress.' There were, like, 40, 50 sword fighters and martial artists on the set, and one of the sword fighters challenged me. I said, 'Look, you don't want to fight me. Nobody wants to fight me. You gotta be crazy to want to fight me.'

Our trademark asymmetrical hairstyle came about by accident. My sister was trying to get her beautician's licence, and I was her guinea pig. She permed my hair and didn't wash out one of the sides properly, so the whole right side of my hair was eaten out. After she washed it, I was half bald.

I was almost arrested in Camden in the 90s.

Once, Dad had too much beer and had to be carried home.

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

I unknowingly accepted impermissible benefits from my summer landlord. I look forward to moving on from this incident and to supporting my alma mater for many years to come.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

He studied his two friends, taking note of their freshly bruised countenances. 'All right. What happened?

I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.

Bad things happen because things happen.

Res ipsa loquitur.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

What men call accident is God's own part.