Accident Quotes - page 3

I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. (Maya Angelou)
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. View quote
Steven Wright
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. View quote
Paul Valéry
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter-perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain it's presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
em>The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought. View quote
Peter Medawar
Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor. View quote
Beatrix Potter
A man falls in love just as he falls down stairs. It is an accident. View quote
Robert Southey
I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident! View quote
Edie Sedgwick
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. View quote
Lillian Hellman
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! (Brian Aldiss)
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am. View quote
Imelda Marcos
The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident. View quote
Sam Harris
We are born by accident into a purely random universe. View quote
Robert Silverberg
Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain. View quote
Anthony Trollope
I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident. View quote
Rita Rudner
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value. View quote
Walter Pater
Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die. View quote
Giordano Bruno
The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time. View quote
Tibor Fischer
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a "destiny" to become a famous writer, and to be remembered as one of the most important thinkers of the century. (Colin Wilson)
I was run over by the truth one day. Ever since the accident I've walked this way. View quote
Adrian Mitchell
Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance. View quote
Jackson Pollock
I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident.. View quote
Jackson Pollock
With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use – I don't use the accident – 'cause I deny the accident.... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct. View quote
Jackson Pollock