I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.
Dave Filoni is a bit of a magician. Nothing is by accident.
Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that’s why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.
When I woke up I didn’t know why I was in hospital so I was asking ‘Why am I here?’ I was pulling all the tubes and my brother Eduardo tried to stop me so we had a fight. The accident was just so unlucky, but I know I am lucky to be alive.
I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don’t become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won’t know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, ‘Let’s try this, too.’ Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn’t even think I would win the Miss India title, so where’s the question of thinking I’d come this far.
I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.
At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores.
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.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
I can’t remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn’t real smart, but I said, ‘I don’t like the sound of that.’
I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
I’m so supported, and I’m so privileged. So many women today are single parents; I don’t feel different. I think you get out of life what you put into it… and Bluebell was a beautiful accident. I feel blessed to have her. I’m learning every day as a mother.
I’ll do anything. That has proven problematic – you may remember my broken leg in a dirt bike accident – but that is also the ingredient that has allowed me to elevate myself in pro wrestling.
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
My first love was rock and funk. Rap was an accident.
‘Amores Perros’ is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.
Photography is an accident.
It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
I shouldn’t have survived that accident. Science didn’t give me a single chance. I basically survived for about 50 minutes with less than one liter of blood. Science says that’s simply impossible.
I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me – not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
That’s a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it’s by accident, but sometimes it’s on purpose.
If you’re one car accident away from poverty, you’re on a high wire without a safety net. And that’s a challenging proposition.
These landscapes aren’t breaking news or necessarily even illegal. These are intentional, purposeful landscapes, whether to extend our cities or build a mine or put a road in or clear a forest. I’ve been photographing that which has been intended by us; it’s not an accident.
I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.
My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn’t know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.
There’s different types of coaches in life. I don’t have to be a coach on the basketball court. I can be a coach for businesses. I can be a coach for kids. I can be a coach for people who have gone through adversity, because everyone has had some type of damn accident in some form or capacity.
I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don’t see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It’s no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide.
I ripped all the cartilage out of my hip in a water ski jumping accident. I am a bit accident prone.
I might act like it’s an accident but the opposite is true. I’m incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
I know what it is to feel like you’ve gotten into a 60-mile-an-hour car accident after a fight. It’s pretty rough. It’s why we are where we are. We get paid to fight the best in the world and that’s something you know going in is part of it.
It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.
I have the best physique in all of WWE; this is not by accident.
I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it’s tough.
I really feel that if it wasn’t for the accident, I’d still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.
I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
Dad, I’m in some trouble. There’s been an accident and you’re going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on independent ombudsmen.
One of my favorites is one called ‘Rory’s Radio’ that I wrote about my brother Jeff’s best friend growing up – his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn’t have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.
My accident – 15 centimetres right and nothing would have happened; 10 centimetres left and I would not be here.
I have so many wonderful people in my life. I’ve never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I’m a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their ‘subjects’ and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn’t by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
I was an accident – my mum was only 16 when she had me.
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.
