As a former track cyclist I know only too well the risk of…

They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.

— Guy Martin

In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and…

— Paul Valery

Dont stand outside in a lightning shower

— Padraig

Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As…

— Tony Bishop

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

— Marilyn Hacker

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump…

— Jason Schwartzman

Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can…

— Annie Ernaux

I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I…

— Amy Schumer

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be…

— Gordon Willis

The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody…

— Philip Roth

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

— Sally Ride

It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all…

— Francine Rivers

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

— Sebastian Thrun