56 Accidentally Quotes for You to Enjoy

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. Phyllis Diller

Funny Time Day Gin Only Steam Only Time Got Accidentally Iron Ironing Ever Enjoyed

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts. David Letterman

Dog Confused Water Gorgeous Thought Weather Spring Changed Hot Hot Dog Feels Vendors Like Because Got Accidentally Eighties Mild Here

I'm always interested in the moment when lives somehow accidentally cross. I think sometimes those accidental meetings can be small miracles; they can really change one's perspective on that moment and on life. Saskia de Brauw

Life Change Sometimes Perspective Miracles Think Meetings Those Cross Somehow Small Always Accidental Accidentally Interested Really Moment Lives

Nobody is accidentally in Alaska. The people who are in Alaska are there because they choose to be, so they've sort of got a real frontier ethic. The people are incredibly friendly, interesting, smart people - but they also stay out of each other's business. Marcus Sakey

Business People Smart Other Incredibly Out Stay Smart People Nobody Also Sort Because Got Real Accidentally Friendly Frontier Interesting Ethic Choose Who Each Alaska

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal. Pete Docter

Life You Remember Sky String Kid Temporal About Something Having Disappeared Feels Like Know Until Accidentally Go Balloon Off Very Just Much Fleeting Even Float Letting Watching

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much. Zig Ziglar

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom. Angela Davis

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant. Ashley Judd

Funny You Speak Nervous First Met Live Hesitant Extremely Though Backstage Hoping Trip Something Over Like Because Accidentally Microphone Going Being After Break Races Really Amp Started

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours. Busy Philipps

The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles. Christian de Duve

Result First Become Our Considered Possibility Particles Got Accidentally Existence Conditions After Clues Might Certain Injure Right

Foreign writers - especially Germans - often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in the wrong country. In much the same way, leftists sense in their bones that he was a radical, rightists that he was a Tory. Daniel Hannan

I burned down my dorm room freshman year. I was that kid. When you live in small quarters with two guys, the smell in the room starts to take over a little bit. So we decided we wanted our room to smell like fresh baked cookies. So we order a cookie-dough-scented candle off eBay, and then we accidentally burn our room down with that candle. Dave Franco

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I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast. David Shuster

Work Car Delay Live Broadcast Say Anchored Promised Would Share Over Frequently Accidentally Prayed Coverage Years Wondered Often Graphic Incident Including Switch Actually Violent

I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with. Don McCullin

Photography School Out Photographed Photographer Guy Policeman Him Became How Accidentally Came End Stop Gangs Street Started

No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career. Don McLean

Music You Happy Matter Feeling Back Tell Hopeful Entertaining Drift Tend He Written Underneath Becomes Always How Am Accidentally Trying Artist Ever Career

Every week, we read about horrific tragedies resulting from children who play with firearms and accidentally shoot themselves or their family members. Elizabeth Esty

Family Every Members About Horrific Resulting Week Firearms Read Accidentally Tragedies Shoot Family Members Children Themselves Who Play

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. Elizabeth Gilbert

Everyone's trying to get a reality show, and we're just trying to avoid accidentally being on a reality show. Erin Foster

Reality Everyone Accidentally Get Trying Just Being Reality Show Show Avoid

Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed, life arose here spontaneously and accidentally, it is reasonable to hope that we might find traces of the same kind of process on Mars. Graham Hancock

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career. Hooman Majd

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession. James Earl Jones

Work Love Me Seen Before Late Channels Run See Makes Proud Surf Accidentally Very Movies Profession Actor Night

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