#accident

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except

Maruman does not loll. ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

#accidental #cat #coincidence #funny #humor

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#car #car accident #clockwork #happens #like

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. ↗

— William Jackson

#cartoon #characteristics #characters #eccentric #home

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#because #endlessly #fascinating #life #like

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. ↗

— Lara St. John

#all things #being #bucket #during #hit

It's unclear whether Brauser was trying to hit Franz Josef or Rangi. I hope it was the former. There's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

Even at this altitude, the substitute pilot's bathed in sweat, sweat running down his chin and neck. Fear must be the fountain of youth, because the substitute pilot now looks younger than any of us, doughy and flushed with horror. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident. ↗

— Jack Anderson

#get #hurt #i #intersection #light

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#act #any #be prepared #emergency #himself