#accident

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#almost #being #books #case #coincidence

When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#big #big brother #brother #bunch #down

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#believe #encounters #history #i #only

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ↗

— Plato

#any #anything #came #come #did

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Plato

#destinies #happening #legislate #man #never

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#genes #responsibility #talent

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#accidents #change #impossible #man #reveals

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#clumsy #i #just #prone

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