On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“Person after person after person... they all converge at one moment, irrevocably changing the course of a thousand more live. As it… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that… — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
People are valuable regardless of the color of their skin. You can be open about it and talk about it. You don't… — Nicole C. Mullen Copy Share Image
This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene,… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Adventures are funny things. Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events. But some adventures are… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Yeah, I've mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay . I don't hate them, I don't wish they… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and… — Lilli Palmer Copy Share Image
When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I… — Brooke Burns Copy Share Image
There are the people who really, really enjoy being celebrities, and then there are the people who came by it maybe by… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's… — Rinko Kawauchi Copy Share Image
The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really… — Marc Cherry Copy Share Image
I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became… — Simi Linton Copy Share Image
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
