Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We used to have to do a lot of hiking to get to our avalanche control routes. And it didn't increase the number of accidents that much, like we had anticipated, because of the quality of skiers up there.

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.

Billy Donovan

Lee fell off his bicycle, that was pretty much it. That's all it really is, no car accident or anything like that. It was a freak thing that I feel bad about for Lee, but we've got to try to get him back as soon as we can.

Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.

Second-guessing is as bad for the criminal justice system as it is for football games. I have a real problem with having a case that was investigated 31 years ago and found to be an accident and then reinvestigated 30-plus years later when everything is destroyed and it's found to be a murder.

SEPA is busy handling highly frequent environmental accidents. It is hard for SEPA to spare more manpower and resources into pushing the regulation to every corner of the country.

Soldiers and officers were involved in a clash among themselves when the defence minister's car was by accident passing.

Samuel Johnson

So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere

Chantal Kreviazuk

So in a sense, the accident was definitely good for me and if that didn't happen, it probably would have taken me a lot longer to get productive.

She took the car back to her friend this morning and her friend looked at the damage and had seen media reports about the accident and realized that her car wasn't damaged by a barricade. That's when she called us.

She's been through a lot. It's that fine line when a tragic accident becomes a crime.

Nancy Gibbs

Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

Nancy Gibbs

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Nancy Gibbs

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

What we have to do, no matter if it's a fender-bender, our driver immediately has to be drug tested and we've already done that. Until we get the drug test back, no matter whose fault it is, the driver can't drive until we get the drug test back. That's standard protocol with any accident you have. It's automatic.

We are deeply saddened by this tragic accident and loss of our colleague. We will be working with the family to provide assistance during this difficult time.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

Today was pretty encouraging. She understands the etiquette of the track and how to avoid collisions. I feel a lot more positive about it, and probably less concerned about potential accidents or injury.

Ashton Shepherd

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

Tom Glavine

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

We want to avoid accidents such as this one.

Kate Bernheimer

As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

Lucy Walker

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

Paul Tracy

This season has gone great, other than two races, ... I got in an accident with Bourdais in Mexico, which put me out of the race, and then I was leading in Toronto and ran out of gas. We had those two races where we had bad luck and Bourdais hasn't had any bad luck at all this season. We just need to try and continue to get top-three finishes at every race and do what we can to catch Bourdais.

We're encouraged by the fact that several of the pre-tour recommended rides have gone very well, with few accidents. We think the education and safety clinics that have been implemented have been a huge help in making that happen.

Dennis C. Blair

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep, no task too difficult' approach that we take toward al Qaeda.

Gerry Mulligan

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

We didn't have any hint of any criminality. This is accidental, and we're going to look into ways to prevent accidents and make all scouting events as safe as possible.

We didn't have a mass or anything like that, so I let the kids go. But one day we had a kid get in a car accident and another kid get kicked by a car and something else happened. We only had about 28 players, and four of them didn't make it back for the game.

The data . . . was intentionally fabricated, not an accidental error, and this constituted major misconduct.

The data has found that in ZIP codes where there are more cars on the road, the chances of having an accident increase. There's a law of probability there.

Tom Chatfield

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.