#accident

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There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...


Jasper Fforde


#aircraft #airships #engine #mankind #money

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan on the oven in her flat. Apparently this happens all the time. The tenant in question is appearing as an extra -- playing one of the cooks.


Emma Thompson


#cooking #filming #fire #movies #movies

We do not suffer by accident.


Jane Austen


#suffering #prejudice

Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.


L.M. Montgomery


#anne-shirley #upside #l-m-montgomery

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.


Henry Adams


#companionship #counts #marriage #much

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.


Josef Albers


#against #always #done #falling #had

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.


Muhammad Ali


#arms #believe #car #crashes #day

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.


Lauren Bacall


#profession #stardom

What men call accident is God's own part.


Philip James Bailey


#call #god #men #own #part

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.


Steve Albini


#band #conceptual #design #discovered #general