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| Edwin Conklin Quote |
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. -- Edwin Conklin
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| John Sloan Dickey Quote |
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen. -- John Sloan Dickey
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| Andrew Schneider Quote |
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. -- Andrew Schneider
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| Edward C. Banfield Quote |
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society. -- Edward C. Banfield
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| Horace Walpole Quote |
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident. -- Horace Walpole
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| Godfather, The Quote |
Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today. -- Godfather, The
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| Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad Quote |
Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. -- Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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| John Powell Quote |
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -- John Powell
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| Frank Lloyd Wright Quote |
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
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| Frank Lloyd Wright Quote |
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
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