Accidents Quotes - Page 34

• You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Together, Way

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• There are the people who really, really enjoy being celebrities, and then there are the people who came by it maybe by accident. I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

  Megan Fox

  Hate, People, Interviews

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.

  Michael Stipe

  Abuse, Substance, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.

  Roddy Piper

  Stars, Real, Wrestling

  Source: www.wrestlenewz.com

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• I have this theory that there are two kinds of people in the world, people who stop at a traffic accident and those that just drive by. If I see a traffic accident, I am going to stop. I do notice. I don't think that makes me a good or bad person, or anybody else better or worse.

  Marlo Thomas

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.

  Jason Lytle

  Ideas, Records, Cohesion

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I know I get cold, cause I can't leave things well alone. Understand I'm accident prone. Me, I get free every night the moon is mine. But when the morning comes don't say you love me, don't say you need me. I really don't think that's fair.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Morning, Moon, Night

  Song: Wishing I Was There, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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• It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Confused, Firsts, Causes

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.617

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• Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

  Carol Roth

  People, Ends, Process

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• The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

  Georges Danton

  Character, Littles, Infinity

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• There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

  Edmond H. Fischer

  Escaping, Careers, Luck

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• The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fate, Kismet

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• Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Demand, Littles, Sometimes

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• Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Sight, Bravery

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• It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the First Article's assurance.

  Wiley Blount Rutledge

  Peace, Rights, People

  "Thomas v. Collins, 323 U.S. 516". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 8, 1945.

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• Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Peace, Results

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• Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Sex, Men

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• It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

  Bell Hooks

  Meaningful, Women, Home

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.61, Routledge

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• [Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

  Jessie Sampter

  Women, Self, Law

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• It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Baseball, Culture

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• The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

  Pliny the Elder

  Discovery, Found, Valuable

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• The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

  Philip Sidney

  May, Faults, Shame

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• To a life that seizes
  Upon content,
  Locality seems
  But accident.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Locality, Seems

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• A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Kings, Artist, Greatness

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.59

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• A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

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