#accident

To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a spectacular accident--and then to be whisked away from it so suddenly--brought to the edge of tragedy, and then to have their better natures win out, showing them how much nicer they always /knew/ they were--that was the supreme thrill. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#human-nature #death

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

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. ↗

— Henry Adams

#companionship #counts #marriage #much

What men call accident is God's own part. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#call #god #men #own #part

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

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help. ↗

— Bono

#doing #help #know #really #seem

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

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