Famous Quotes & Sayings

For us, it's always been a concern. Over the years, there's been a number of minor accidents. There are trees and sort of dips in the grass, and stones out there, and so on and so forth. It's pretty dangerous.

For the record, he can tell you he actually has no memory of the accident whatsoever.

Albert Einstein

for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.

Samuel Butler

For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident

Jacky Ickx

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

If it were me, I would go to some homes in the area of the accident and try to find the owners -- if it was not late at night, and if it was safe to walk around.

He was always quick with a joke. He loved to laugh and make other people smile, ... Coming on the heels of the accident involving our news intern Katie Marshall, this is just a devastating loss for the staff.

Martin Jol

I was shocked this morning to read that he had broken his ankle. I thought maybe he had been in a car accident or something.

Daniel Briere

I guess if it's accidental there's a good chance you might get suspended. If it's on purpose then I guess it's OK. It makes me angry, but there's nothing we can do about it. The only positive thing is that Tucker is going to play golf, and we're going to the playoffs.

Susie Bright

I got told by one major publisher that if someone had a car accident while driving and listening to my books, the company could be liable!

R. A. Salvatore

If they should get into an accident, your insurance will protect you. It will be primary. If the other person also has insurance, their insurance is going to be secondary. So in the event there is bad accident and driver or passengers of the other car sue you, it is your own insurance that will be used first and then the driver's will be used second.

Scott Wilson

If this accident had not occurred, would this plan have gone forward and we would not have discovered it until it was actually put into place? And we don't know the answer to that question.

Al Unser

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

John Irving

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.

Bernardo Houssay

Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

Henry Petroski

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

Don Lemon

Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.

Douglas Coupland

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.

There are quite a few accidents at this intersection. We think it will slow down some of the kids.

B. D. Wong

There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

Ada Yonath

People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

Fred Upton

We have seen hundreds and hundreds of accidents, many serious injuries, ... And what this bill does is correct those problems.

This seriously hampers the investigation. Let's face it. We're now reduced on this accident to having only radar data and whatever information we can glean from that (and) eyewitness statements.

Jon Gruden

This should in no way symbolize what he is all about. That was an accident -- I believe that.

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.

Unfortunately, accidents like that happen in wrestling. Sometimes the circle just isn't big enough for the wrestlers. I was looking forward to seeing that match, too.

James Hall

Two things are driving our investigation, ... We want to know the ignition source on TWA Flight 800. Secondly, we want to know what steps need to be taken to prevent an accident like this from recurring in the future.