Accident Quotes - page 20

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident. (Craig Charles)
For me, everything has always been an accident. View quote
Craig Charles
Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design. View quote
David H. Murdock
I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again. View quote
David Morrissey
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. View quote
Diane Frolov
I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way. View quote
Diane von Furstenberg
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did! View quote
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger. View quote
Elise Broach
The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it? View quote
Eric Liu
I came to photography by accident. View quote
Eve Arnold
I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.' (Gillian Jacobs)
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him. View quote
Goran Ivanisevic
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident. View quote
Gary Numan
I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital. View quote
I. King Jordan
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' View quote
James Naismith
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. View quote
Jeff Greenfield
As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction. View quote
Joel Osteen
I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future. View quote
John Edward
I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel. View quote
John Frankenheimer
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles. (John L. Phillips)
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened. View quote
Jamais Cascio
Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident. View quote
James A. Owen
I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful. View quote
Kesha
I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid. View quote
Kim Alexis