Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

Half of them are suicides or accidents, Martha. Don't exaggerate.

Last Monday, a tragic series of errors, negligence and accidents suddenly cast us into darkness, tears, wounds and mourning.

We're on a bit of a spike from December until now, with the fatal accidents.

I think Beckett was influenced by those clowns, Buster Keaton, Abbott and Costello ... by that sort of physical comedy. I don't think it was an accident that they had Buster Keaton in his film.

George Wilson

I think it was not an accident because he doesn't smoke, and if they said it wasn't electrical, what could have happened?

Peter Hall

I think it was more by accident rather than design there is such a strong connection between the show and the racing fraternity, but there's just so much talent here. And, hey, both the racing and theatrical communities are made up of real people with many interests and backgrounds.

Dan Johnson

It has been fun to coach and watch him mature physically, ... His success is no accident because he has worked hard to earn it.

It has been a long time coming. I've been close a lot over that stretch of time, and I had that car accident in '98 and was sidelined for a few years. To come all the way back and be a champion again, I'm just tickled to death.

It has been a long time coming, ... I've been close a lot over that stretch of time, and I had that car accident in '98 and was sidelined for a few years. To come all the way back and be a champion again, I'm just tickled to death.

I think Wall Street is a little more rationale and a little less emotional than the press. What Wall Street does well is it says, OK, something has happened. Is it a one-time event or a recurring event? Is it just an accident or is it indicative of bad investments and a bad safety compliance track record?

Sean Maher

I think that's when everybody's mood changed from knowing this was just an accident to knowing it was beyond that, and you just go into autopilot and you just do what you've got to do.

Martin Jacques

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.

Matt Hasselbeck

I think that was the first car accident I've ever been in. I was a little bit startled.

It is no accident that some of the best years economically over the past 45 years have been the presidential years of 1964, 1968, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1996 and 2000. Even 2004 wasn't all that bad in the light of history.

Edmund Stoiber

It is horrible that such a tragic accident must be endured at the start of the year.

Laws designed to control the deer population seem to have had an unintended effect on accidental shootings.

I was working on these improvements long before the young man was tragically killed right there. The improvements we made were not a result of his accident or a motivating thing, because we were already trying to do it. The accident happened to coincide with the improvements,

Hosni Mubarak

I will not allow any effort to hide the truth or cover up any aspect of what happened, because the calamity is great, the accident grave,

Mark E. Smith

The pain and horror of losing a loved one to a workplace accident is unimaginable. We're here today because thousands of workers go to work and don't return home at the end of the day - and it doesn't have to be that way.

Leo Rosten

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Leo Rosten

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Kevin Kern

He was passing by the accident scene and he stopped to see if he could help.

I don't know exactly how it happened. From what I've been told, he caught a rut or something and parts of his knee cap shattered off. His doctor says it's the kind of accident you normally see in a car accident.

I'd like to report to the listeners that this is an accident based on initial findings.

I'd like to report... that this is an accident based on initial findings,

Maya Angelou

I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

I can hear the accidents as people cut through to get to Henny Penny. They think one way is safe and the other one isn't. You can hear the noise in here.

He says he doesn't remember the accident itself and the doctors say that is normal for a person who sustained the type of injuries he did. He has seen the stories that have appeared in The Cullman Times and we're saving them for him. He thinks he's famous now.

Roads really aren't in bad shape. We've probably had 15 or 20 weather-related accidents in the region that required ODOT crews. The snow seemed to come down heavy from 5 to 8 a.m.

Residents of Massachusetts and particularly those along the Buzzards Bay coastline have experienced first-hand the devastation to the environment that can result from accidental oil spills. However, there was nothing accidental about this case. The defendant knowingly violated anti-pollution laws, intentionally dumping oil-contaminated waste directly into the ocean--and even went so far as to manufacture a so-called 'magic pipe' to accomplish the crime. Our hope is that this substantial $10 million fine will send a strong message to those in the maritime community who would try to circumvent our Nation's anti-pollution laws.

Research shows these measures can reduce accidents and fatalities. That's why legislators around the country are thinking about this.

Leland Yee

Relief is finally coming for San Francisco pedestrians and bicyclists, ... The loss of human life and suffering caused by the staggering number of accidents along 19th Avenue clearly warrants this legislation.

Our law here in Arizona, it requires that the driver have known that he injured an individual or a reasonable person should have known that he may have hit an individual, ... And the facts and circumstances surrounding his conduct after the accident will go directly to that element of the charge.