Accident Quotes - page 5

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast. (Andy Andrews)
The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge. View quote
Nicholas Evans
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll Terminus you, buddy! View quote
Rick Riordan
To speak the unspeakable without the proper rhetorical flourish or introduction; to muff that flourish, either by accident, misjudgment, or simple ignorance; to choose the wrong flourish or not choose any (i.e., to choose the flourish called "the literal") is to perform the unspeakable. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after. View quote
Sarah Kane
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. View quote
Sidney Lumet
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. View quote
Sidney Lumet
Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined...or one great figure...or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it. View quote
Philip K. Dick
He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke. View quote
Holly Black
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident. (Shannon Hale)
I'm a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident. View quote
Brad Meltzer
The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning. View quote
Brian Grazer
Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident. View quote
David Levithan
We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim. View quote
James Hillman
... people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so. View quote
Edna O'Brien
Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow. View quote
Alice Sebold
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. View quote
Alan Rickman
My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage. View quote
Gary Lineker
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. (Henry Walter Bates)
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living. View quote
Brian Michael Bendis
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. View quote
Judith Viorst
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda