Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Wilson

I think it was not an accident because he doesn't smoke, and if they said it wasn't electrical, what could have happened?

Peter Hall

I think it was more by accident rather than design there is such a strong connection between the show and the racing fraternity, but there's just so much talent here. And, hey, both the racing and theatrical communities are made up of real people with many interests and backgrounds.

Dan Johnson

It has been fun to coach and watch him mature physically, ... His success is no accident because he has worked hard to earn it.

It has been a long time coming. I've been close a lot over that stretch of time, and I had that car accident in '98 and was sidelined for a few years. To come all the way back and be a champion again, I'm just tickled to death.

It has been a long time coming, ... I've been close a lot over that stretch of time, and I had that car accident in '98 and was sidelined for a few years. To come all the way back and be a champion again, I'm just tickled to death.

I think Wall Street is a little more rationale and a little less emotional than the press. What Wall Street does well is it says, OK, something has happened. Is it a one-time event or a recurring event? Is it just an accident or is it indicative of bad investments and a bad safety compliance track record?

Sean Maher

I think that's when everybody's mood changed from knowing this was just an accident to knowing it was beyond that, and you just go into autopilot and you just do what you've got to do.

Martin Jacques

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.

Matt Hasselbeck

I think that was the first car accident I've ever been in. I was a little bit startled.

It is no accident that some of the best years economically over the past 45 years have been the presidential years of 1964, 1968, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1996 and 2000. Even 2004 wasn't all that bad in the light of history.

Edmund Stoiber

It is horrible that such a tragic accident must be endured at the start of the year.

Laws designed to control the deer population seem to have had an unintended effect on accidental shootings.

I was working on these improvements long before the young man was tragically killed right there. The improvements we made were not a result of his accident or a motivating thing, because we were already trying to do it. The accident happened to coincide with the improvements,

Lindsey caught an edge coming into a jump and then she fell off the jump. The accident occurred because her legs split on landing.

Robert Crawford

I will take some of the information I learned from him (Dale Jr.) and take it back to the police department, items such as cornering techniques. We always want to prevent an accident from happening, taking the safest approach to the situation. We learned a lot about positioning today, be it on the track or the highway. But with him being in a sports car, it was easier. The police car was like driving a tank compared to the Corvette.

Robert Graham

I was in an accident about six or seven months ago and he helped me out.

Michael Strahan

It felt like we were in a heavyweight championship fight, too. It was just a punch to the face. There are other ways to block people. He said it was an accident and I'll take him at his word. But it's the kind of injury that ends careers.

Carl Edwards

I think from the outside, things look worse than they are. But those of us on the teams and working on it everyday know how close we have all been to having a completely different season up to this point. You get in an accident that wasn't your fault. Or get caught speeding down pit road. Or have a mechanical problem that wasn't really anyone's doing. Every team is going to have their share of those types of things before the year is over with. If it does, then everything will balance out, and we'll be back in it in no time.

Mona Simpson

I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes.

Robin Cook

I think it would be doubly tragic if it does emerge this accident was, in part, caused by the persistent hounding of the princess and her privacy by photographers,

Just imagine having your child killed in a hunting accident and somebody walks in and asks for a copy and next week your child's picture is on the Internet.

I don't know exactly how it happened. From what I've been told, he caught a rut or something and parts of his knee cap shattered off. His doctor says it's the kind of accident you normally see in a car accident.

I'd like to report to the listeners that this is an accident based on initial findings.

I'd like to report... that this is an accident based on initial findings,

Maya Angelou

I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

I don't believe you should just be able to shoot; I think there would be too many accidents that should never have happened.

I can hear the accidents as people cut through to get to Henny Penny. They think one way is safe and the other one isn't. You can hear the noise in here.

He lent a 19-year-old inexperienced driver who had a history of speeding and car accidents a high-powered automobile.

Clint Eastwood

Half of them are suicides or accidents, Martha. Don't exaggerate.

Gore Verbinski

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You're focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents.

The only thing that kept this accident from being catastrophic was the time of day that it occurred.

George Jones

I feel great at the moment. In many ways, this is the best time of my life. I'm not fooling with alcohol or drugs anymore and I really feel in great health. I also quit smoking cigarettes when I had my car accident so I have a lot more breath control and can hit notes that I hadn't hit for years.

Dan Hill

I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.