Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Scholz

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything.

Daniel Handler

Accidents happen all the time.

There are no earmarks from the physical evidence that this was an accident at all.

Ronald Reagan

We share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss. Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight. We've never had a tragedy like this.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We hear every single day how terrible suicides are, automobile accidents are, how terrible cocaine and heroin are, murders, homicides, all of them. You put them all together, they don't come close to what this drug nicotine combined in tobacco does. Four hundred and forty thousand people a year, the equivalent of three 747s dropping out of the sky every single day of our lives. It's time we changed this folks,

Larry Hughes

We heard pretty much right after the accident about what had happened. He is the kind of guy who is so incredibly exciting to watch race. He just has such a wonderful personality and is the kind of person who always wants to help others and give back to people.

Yesterday's accident cannot be excused, ... It was criminal negligence and I own moral responsibility for it.

The fact is, space technology can and does fail. And when you start using nuclear materials in increasing numbers, the odds of an accident increase.

Lance Gross

I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

We acknowledge everything from the food-stamp fraud to the van accidents. A lot of those legal problems came from growing pains and oversight. But Bishop Jefferson is making the necessary adjustments for anything that is under his watch.

We didn't declare the intersection unduly hazardous based upon the accident experience or the details surrounding the accident. The city still finds it a very tragic situation.

Whether it was accidental or not, there was contact from the shoulder or elbow around the neck area. It's on report.

We responded to the balcony accident and an auto-pedestrian accident around the same time - at about 3 a.m. Saturday. It was busy early Saturday.

We're going to take a second in someone's life and examine it over a couple of days. This was a tragic accident. ... Is this an accident or is this a crime?

Tony Williams

We were in a car accident one time, and in that one second that I swerved on the road-- it made a difference between life and death.

Pete Carroll

We'll be careful with Reggie this week in practice. We'll make sure there aren't any accidents with him.

Unfortunately it looks like we have had human intervention but whether that's accidental or deliberate remains to be seen.

Jim Talent

Working with Troop A, we were successful in getting the Senate to approve a plan that would protect our first responders and prevent highway fatalities, ... Dozens of police officers and fire fighters have lost their lives in accidents that should have been avoidable. Our initiative instructs the Department of Transportation to develop model legislation that will increase awareness and help save lives.

W. S. Gilbert

With the lack of institutional knowledge, you could end up with more injuries and catastrophic accidents to some of the employees.

With the high price of heating this year, we could see more accidents. But I would love to be proved wrong about this.

We're not anxious that there are going to be accidental occurrences as a result of Y2K for nuclear command control systems. Having said that, we want to have the least amount of uncertainty in everyone's minds as to the implications.

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway,

With this size accident you would expect a factual report in about three months ... and an analysis in nine to 12 months - it depends what they find.

We've been pretty fortunate and haven't had any accidents. It works out pretty well. Since adult supervisors aren't hunting they can pay attention to the juniors. During the general season there is a greater chance for an incident if the adult is hunting as well.

Aaron Levie

It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Billy Joel

You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.

Howard Rheingold

SMS was commercially an accident ? it was not originally seen as a revenue-producing service, but today 100 billion SMS messages are being exchanged every month.

At this time, we are asking companies to rededicate themselves and their miners and their operations to signify the enduring commitment to protecting miners in West Virginia by participating in the stand-down for safety. We will take an active approach to accident reduction.

Every weekend there's a significant accident. There are bad accidents out here.

The last couple of accidents there (on Durango at Route 160), people ran stop signs. I find it hard to believe people aren't seeing those signs.

Steven Johnson

The large number of safety studies indicates that this issue has received a great amount of attention. Unfortunately, many of these studies involve more advocacy than science. It's not that these studies aren't valuable, but they have problems with methodology, statistical analysis and even simple understanding of important terms, such as 'speeding.' In accident data, speeding is defined as both 'traveling faster than the posted limit' and 'traveling too fast for conditions.' Studies often do not differentiate between these definitions.