The Brits called them SMIDSY accidents—Sorry, mate, I…

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

— Sebastian Thrun

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

My musical career was an accident.

— Sade Adu