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

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

In the distance, Amanda heard the sirens. Just a little bit longer. She didn’t know what was wrong with her, but she was scared of dying before she had the chance to tell Ryker goodbye....

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable...

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

It’s two things; you either choose to take risks through storms and win after the hail or you remain idle and die idle. Once laziness is deliberate; failure is not an accident!

To the family of a victim of a fatal accident, the deceased was at the wrong place at the wrong time. To the family of the morgue owner, the deceased was at the right place...

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

The message couldn’t have been clearer: women may rise to the top, but they must seem as though they don’t care whether they win or lose. Nice girls care only about being nice. They win...

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

The skies give no warning when they fall.

How did I discover saccharin? Well, it was partly by accident and partly by study. I had worked a long time on the compound radicals and substitution products of coal tar… One evening I was...

Harmony doesn’t happen by accident, accidents happen by accident.

We do not suffer by accident.

For that half-hour in the hospital delivery room I was intimate with immensity, for that half-minute before birth I held her hands and for that duration we three were undivided, I felt the blood of...

Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can’t take their eyes off him.

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, ‘I propose to have an...

Through pure accident of birth, I’ve managed to stay relatively youthful.

The Marquis de V… – whose falsetto voice and little watery eyes I have always detested – was saying to me with a wicked smile: ‘Then again, the master gymnast might break his neck at...

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury

Envy and respect are not the same things…Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so...

I don’t think it’s by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Si inventer la substance, c’est indirectement inventer l’accident, plus l’invention est puissant, performante, et plus l’accident est dramatique.

Pudge/Colonel: “I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way...

The VoyagerWe are all lonely voyagers sailing on life’s ebb tide,To a far off place were all stripling warriors have died,Sometime at eve when the tide is low,The voices call us back to the rippling...

Get out, but don’t cause unneeded accidents.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it’s all accidents.

There were a lot of one-hit wonders in the 90s. I was one of them, though mine was just a fender bender and I left before the cops showed up.

And more importantly, I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn’t for the accident.

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

Coordinating thereEvents and objects with remote eventsAnd vanished objects. Making ornamentsOf accidents and possibilities.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Stardom isn’t a profession, it’s an accident.

An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet’s four and a half thousand million...

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

They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge,” Shrake said. “If it wasn’t murder, it was a really weird accident.

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.

Lord, What a terrible shame. You’re so attractive!’I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn’t have mattered.

One time a woman made my heart flood with love, and then fled the scene of the subsequent boating accident. Many people drowned that day, and all of them remember it fondly as they fondle...

Accident is nature’s way of starting a design; design is a man’s way of looking at the accidents.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

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

Accident – A statistical inevitability. Some nuclear power plants are built on fault lines, but ever mine, dam, oil rig, and waste dump is founded upon a tacit acceptance of the worst-case scenario. One a...

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed...

I’m justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is …I am their mistake.

Human life is a series of mistakes justified by reason; there is no escape from it since the reason is the first mistake born out of a process subsequently understood as the very life by...

Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

Often, people hurt things on accident… No one plans on hurting anyone, but it happens.