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Accident Quotes

I had a come-to-Jesus moment. There was a training accident with white phosphorous where we very easily could have died. After that happened I thought, The two things I really want to do are smoke cigarettes and be an actor.

– Adam Driver

On his time in the military.

It takes two to make an accident - The Great Gatsby quote

It takes two to make an accident.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby. Chapter 3, Jordan is talking about car accidents. But the author is comparing a car accident to a relationship, saying it takes two to make problems in a relationship.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

– Howard Nemerov

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it’s by accident.

– Gordon Getty

I don’t mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

– Heather Mills

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

– Henry Adams

Through historical accident, we’ve ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

– Jonathan Zittrain

One does not become a guru by accident.

– James Fenton

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

– John C. Maxwell

If men have a smell it’s usually an accident.

– Jeff Foxworthy

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

– Alec Issigonis

I became a children’s author by accident.

– Jerry Spinelli

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

– Clive Davis

Human beings are social creatures – not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

– Clay Shirky

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

– Alice Hamilton

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

– Francis Thompson

It’s like watching a car accident, that reality TV.

– Enrico Colantoni

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That’s one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that’s unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

– Fetty Wap

I’m not clumsy, I’m just accident prone.

– Daniel Radcliffe

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

– Carlo Goldoni

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

– Grace Jones

Every job I’ve ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don’t get.

– Moon Unit Zappa

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

– Eric Roberts

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

– Gregory Benford

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

– Dick Armey

I came to photography by accident.

– Eve Arnold

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

– Gary Numan

I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

– Emile M. Cioran

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