#accident

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#am #beethoven #birth #i #i am

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#automobile #buffalo #dangerous #everyone #him

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#character #characters #command #context #create

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#almost #became #drama #drifted #film

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#created #creatures #earth #error #fallible

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts. ↗

— David Letterman

#because #carts #changed #confused #dog

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. ↗

— Carl Levin

#accidental #child #critical #guns #involving

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#brother-in-law #brought #coverage #fact #fiancee

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#car #dated #done #gotten #i