The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug. — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
Accident is natures way of starting a design; design is a mans way of looking at the accidents. — Thiruman Archunan Copy Share Image
A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. — Stephen De Staebler Copy Share Image
Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong. — Mary Schiavo Copy Share Image
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school… — Julio Frenk Copy Share Image
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would,… — Arjun Makhijani Copy Share Image
You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It… — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just… — Storm Saulter Copy Share Image
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Procrastination must be one of the most tempting, yet daunting things you could ever experience! — Matthew Van Zyl Copy Share Image
“Not all accidents are what they seem. Victims do no even know why they have been chosen.” — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The worst events always have the thrust of accidents, as if they come out of nowhere. But that's just lack of perspective.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him — Jeff Zucker Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone. — Paul Budnitz Copy Share Image
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people? — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image