Top 345 Accidental Quotes & Sayings

Though direction was always on my mind, scripting was accidental.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

I'm an accidental writer.

Most political wives are accidental politicians.

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

We move through soundscapes all the time, and most of them are accidental - a by-product. Most retail soundscapes are accidental, incongruent with the brands, and mostly hostile.

You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

Is anything accidental?

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.

I've become an accidental anthropologist.

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is your nature. For thoughts come and go - they are accidental - but that inner space always remains. Clouds gather and go, disappear - they are accidental - but the sky remains. You are the sky.

What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.

When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

Success is never accidental.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

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

Im an accidental entrepreneur.

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

Directing is my first love; turning an actor was rather accidental.

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

All deaths before the age of 100 are accidental, caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness.

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.

I want to make words out of life. That's bigger than me. That's as big a creative force as - bigger than, for me, even having children. That felt more accidental - wonderful, but accidental.

You’re touching me,” I chided him. He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting every sensitive point I hadn’t even known I had. “No, this is touching you. That was just accidental contact.” “Oh? Good to know. If you touch me again and I break your arm off, you can be sure it will be completely accidental.

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

I am an accidental actor.

I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

Trump 'accomplishments' are ephemeral, coincidental and accidental.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation - all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.