Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Beverly Cleary

Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus' pestering little sister.

Joyce Oates

Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Based on these findings, the data in 2005 was intentionally fabricated, not an accidental error.

Whatever the result of the investigation, this is a tragedy. We do not suspect foul play. It looks like it was either accidental or suicide.

Leo Rosten

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Leo Rosten

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

It is possible to claim only through extrapolation, by abstracting, by redrawing the man from his voyage of his own imaginary Destiny that the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one, the Matrix Word of Love is a God of man, because the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one is the attribute of the Matrix Word of Creation and determines the image of Knowledge, it is a stranger to existence even if he determines it. It is a stranger and it is outside the existence because the Existence becomes a mere Personalisation of the Person, and the existence, just like other personalizations before it, has a infinity of opposites, and our Creating Factor which is Love, determines this infinity of opposites of the existence, thus making whole the infinite worlds of Knowledge, worlds of The Image, worlds of reflection, worlds with DESTINY!

Craig Rivet

I think it was an accidental play. That happens a lot in this league. It's happened to me personally this year where I got clipped pretty much in the same spot, and if it would have been an inch closer, I would have had the same injury. It makes you think, but unfortunately that is part of the game. You just don't want to see that stuff happen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sarah Brady

The Governor says the accidental shooting 'raises questions' about whether firearms should be permitted in Capitol offices, and the legislator says he's going to do some 'soul searching' as to whether he should have a loaded gun in his office. There are no questions left to ask -- Delegate John Reid should be relieved of having to decide whether to have a loaded gun in his office. These offices belong to the people, and the people deserve to be kept safe from amateurs who play with pistols.

Larry Smith

We called him (fire marshal) in immediately on the scene. He lives here locally. His investigation indicates it appears to be accidental fire. Appeared to be an electrical fire.

Our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one left its print on a soil alien tot him, but on which human kind will germinate along with an infinity of other worlds.I think that the loss of the sacred self by the man on the roulette of history was due to the Matrix Word of Knowledge, or more precisely to the Mirror, that changed the meaning of the Self Love of man with the sense of the self Knowledge!

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.

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

Padgett Powell

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

Whether it's domestic violence, gang violence, attempted suicide, accidental shooting, or something else, intervention strategies will be personalized. We're looking at this from a public health perspective as a health epidemic.

Lindy Ruff

When you're going after somebody's head, you've got intent to hurt. Don't tell me the knee is accidental after that. He knew exactly what he was doing, and should pay a price for it.

The accidental deaths are people who are taking the drug for a very long period of time. These are people who are at, or slightly higher than, the recommended dose. The NPX lasts longer in the blood, and it is the one that is so toxic.

the accidental bankruptcy. They went in and then said, 'Now what should we do?'

The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir

Steve Johnson

Where was the bloody advertising for Wife Swap as it seemed to be quite accidental that me and the wife ended up watching it?