#accident

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. ↗

— Sally Ride

#before #better #challenger #rocket #safer

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#car #car accident #clockwork #happens #like

A lot happens by accident in poetry. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#happens #lot #poetry

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#come #going #here #i #just

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. ↗

— John Malkovich

#die #directors #during #everything #expect

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. ↗

— Lara St. John

#all things #being #bucket #during #hit

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. ↗

— Lara St. John

#brings #concert #crowd #goes #impulse

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#after #before #chris #died #friend

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. ↗

— Stephen King

#almost #beginning #career #little #more

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#also #choose #even #happen #help