Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.
What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?
The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.
I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident.
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.
The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!
