#accident

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan on the oven in her flat. Apparently this happens all the time. The tenant in question is appearing as an extra -- playing one of the cooks. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#cooking #filming #fire #movies #movies

We do not suffer by accident. ↗

— Jane Austen

#suffering #prejudice

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design. ↗

— Steve Albini

#band #conceptual #design #discovered #general

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

#accompanying #acquired #beginnings #causes #completed

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#attention #brought #cannot #circumstances #closer

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom. ↗

— Angela Davis

#around #became #because #country #demand

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fate #such #thing

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#again #art #even #hundred #movement

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident. ↗

— Manute Bol

#after #arm #god #i #i can

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#april #drawn #each #our #scene