Accident Quotes

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.

Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, miscalculation or madness.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

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

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

I fell off a wall in Cockermouth when I was 18. The slate on the top of the wall was loose and I tried to jump up and sit on it. I ended up falling backwards and the tile ended up falling back onto my hand.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

I'm very grateful that I don't have to wear heels, because I can barely walk in heels. If I were to skip, it would be deadly.

I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

We all know, going into this business and stepping into the ring, there's a possibility of injury. But you're never expecting it to happen, and when it does, it's just the worst thing ever.

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

I was riding pillion on my friend's motorbike, and we met with an accident which badly injured my right leg. I was bedridden for three years and used crutches for one year before I fully recovered.

You pissed on my rug.

Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin thing to do, I don't know what is.

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

I totally believe in opportunities. I don't believe in accidents. I just don't.

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!