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Accident Quotes


"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."


"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."


"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."


"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."


"We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it."


"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."


"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."


"Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident."


"There are no small accidents on this circuit."


"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."


"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."


"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."


"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."


"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."


"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."


"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."


"Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance."


"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."


"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
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