Top 100 Accidentally Quotes
#1. Cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.
Yuval Noah Harari
#2. Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice."
I smiled back unconvincingly. I snore nice. Not "I opine that your auditory nasal exhalations are most pleasing.
Kim Harrison
#3. MYTH506. | There is an American flag on the Moon. According to Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who was on the Moon, he and Neil Armstrong accidentally placed the original American flag too close to their spacecraft, and when they took off, the flag was blown away.
John Brown
#4. The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual ... Ooh I like that ... " That was the energy that kept me up.
Marnie Stern
#5. Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#6. 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
#7. This was shaping up to be the worst conference call of my life, even worse than that time I accidentally clogged the school toilet back in the first grade with my Boba Fett figure (I was pretending it was the Sarlaac pit).
Rick Gualtieri
#8. There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.
Nicole Krauss
#9. As soon as he was gone I blew my breath out and leaned back against the wall. Awkward. First the cop who'd arrested me, then the paramedic who'd kept me from accidentally killing myself. I didn't even want to think what a third thing might be.
Diana Rowland
#10. I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher
Rick Riordan
#11. I'm warning you, if you say something right now, you might accidentally say "Star Wars" instead of "Star Trek" and then you'll have to commit hari-kari, right here, right now in this hallway,
Felicia Day
#12. Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny
he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally
you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
Osho
#13. 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
#14. what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He
Mercedes Lackey
#15. You 'accidentally' touched his bottom? Didn't that happen when you last saw him as
well? Surprising how often that seems to be a problem.
Twisted Hilarity
#16. As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to pretend that I got there accidentally. "How the hell did I get up here? I guess I have to slide down. Whee!" That's what you say when you're having fun. You refer to yourself and some other people.
Mitch Hedberg
#17. You know what his power was? Calling lightning. Try handling that when you live in water. He accidentally killed his entire family one night during a big storm.
Terah Edun
#18. 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
#19. Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
Jonah Goldberg
#20. You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming.
Karl Lehenbauer
#21. God never does anything accidentally...
Rick Warren
#22. 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
#23. If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
Hannah Arendt
#24. He smiled and looked away. 'Sometimes I think we're the same person...but we just got accidentally split into two before we were born.
Alice Oseman
#25. It was foolish to even start down this road, when every other man she'd let in had left some wound, in one way or another, accidentally or not.
Sarah J. Maas
#26. The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this Certain Way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.
Wallace D. Wattles
#27. Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.
Anna Olson
#28. I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.
Tony Judt
#29. We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.
Rick Riordan
#30. 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
#31. Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?
Bret Easton Ellis
#32. There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.
Eugene Wigner
#33. It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
Leonard Bernstein
#34. I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
FM-2030
#35. When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach pumped for that one. I got over that so by the time I hit my teens I was kind of mild. Now I'm like an old lady who occasionally parties real hard.
Brittany Howard
#36. Some people die accidentally. It's a fact.
Sue Grafton
#37. Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
Ellen Hopkins
#38. When it came to Angeline, her problems could range from throwing a desk in rage or accidentally spilling hydrochloric acid on another student. Both had happened recently.
Richelle Mead
#39. My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.
Ted Lindsay
#40. More often than not, this backfires, and our attempts to be different result in uniformity, our attempts to be plain draw attention to ourselves, our attempts to temper sexuality inadvertently exploit it, and our attempts to avoid offense accidentally create it.
Rachel Held Evans
#41. Once your baby starts to walk you'll realize why cribs are designed like prisons from the early 1900s. This is clearly because toddlers are a danger to themselves. The main responsibility for a parent of a toddler is to stop them from accidentally hurting or killing themselves.
Jim Gaffigan
#42. Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose,
Jerry Falwell
#43. In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people who care about each other can work out their differences in a calm and reasoned way.
Po Bronson
#44. Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#45. You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.
Joel Osteen
#46. trying to convert an existing class from concrete to abstract by pushing just the concrete parts down into a new subclass, you might accidentally leave remnants of concrete behavior behind.
Anonymous
#47. Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant.
Terry Goodkind
#48. Joey looked confused and horrified, like a stripper bursting out of a cake only to realize she's been accidentally delivered to a baby shower.
Justin Halpern
#49. 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
#50. You accidentally punched him?" Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. "I'm not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.
Michael J. Sullivan
#51. As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
Douglas Coupland
#53. The ayatollah in Iran says he believes that he got the letter, but he thinks he accidentally threw it out with his Crate & Barrel catalog.
David Letterman
#54. I started with one squirt but didn't think that was enough, so I ended up accidentally spraying on six more. I went back to the beach to wait, smelling like a department-store tragedy.
T.J. Klune
#55. As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
Barbara Bush
#56. The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation.
Clay Shirky
#57. The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#58. I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.
Jennifer Nettles
#59. Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
Maajid Nawaz
#60. Dancing and fighting weren't that different, really. So what if she looked like she'd accidentally stuck her sword in a light socket every time she hit a dance floor? She could definitely throw down some fancy footwork while wielding said sword.
Bethany K. Lovell
#61. I want to talk to him. I want to pick his brain. I'm curious and professionally thirsty, and maybe I want to accidentally press myself against him one more time. So I can smell him. No, definitely not that last.
Katy Evans
#62. Ew. You guys are gross," Arrin says. "Can we go already? Before she accidentally eats him?
Bethany Wiggins
#63. I can see why you opted out of Knight training," I countered. "They'd have 'accidentally' killed you before you made it to adulthood.
Jenna Black
#64. We made mad love
shadow love
random love
and abandoned love.
Accidentally like a martyr.
The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder.
Warren Zevon
#65. 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
#66. Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious - nobody saw me.
Anthony Jeselnik
#67. And just as I start to move past him, my hip accidentally rubs against his, and his face is so close, and his eyes so deep, that I can't help but lift my fingers to his smooth, sculptured cheek. Then without even thinking, I close my eyes, lean in, and kiss him.
Alyson Noel
#68. Lord Sanquire was hanged in the days of James I. for the revengeful murder of an "Alsatian " master named Turner, who had accidentally put out his eye.
Egerton Castle
#69. Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#70. Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.
Evgeni Plushenko
#71. After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps' nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking "Uh-oh.
Fannie Flagg
#72. My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'
Paula Poundstone
#73. The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.
Rodney Brooks
#74. I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.
Homer
#75. Gabriel cocked his head to the side. "Is that what happened in her last life too? You just accidentally
touched Scarlet enough to set the lifeforce transition into motion? God! How much touching did you
do?"
Tristan narrowed his eyes. "What do you want, like a scale of one to ten?
Chelsea Fine
#76. Hold up. How do you accidentally have sex with somebody?" Adina scoffed. "Is she all, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't see your penis there'?
Libba Bray
#77. It was my job to accidentally make money, and his job to make sure I didn't lose it while I was doing wobbly cartwheels in the parking lot after the bars closed.
Jenny Lawson
#78. I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.
Megan Fox
#79. You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
Charles De Lint
#80. What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, like, one of his first times and he knocked out a duck. Like, I'm scared that's going to happen.
Jessica Simpson
#81. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion
#82. I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.
James Tiptree Jr.
#84. We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.
James Lovelock
#85. One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#86. I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!
Mitch Hedberg
#87. 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
#88. I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
Hector Elizondo
#89. People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.
Hulk Hogan
#90. My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.
Susan Wojcicki
#91. Face-cream, hand-cream, nose-cream, eye-cream. I wondered for a moment how serious it would be if you ever got home drunk and accidentally put face-cream on your hands or hand-cream on your face.
Hugh Laurie
#92. But if she had Clay and Turtle as friends, and then Turtle got himself killed by Queen Scarlet or accidentally set on fire, well, then she'd survive OK, because she'd still have Clay. It occurred to her that this was a rather morbid train of thought to be having about a new friend.
Tui T. Sutherland
#93. Nothing happens accidentally. everything happens through necessity, so it is of little use to complain when fate comes knocking at the door.
Jostein Gaarder
#94. The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a debutante dance and were banished forever from civilized society
Michelle Cooper
#95. Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.
Tao Lin
#96. I take in the five guys sitting at the table; four of them are attractive. I definitely wouldn't turn them away if I accidentally discovered one of them naked in a guestroom while roaming around this place.
Danielle Jamie
#97. If you'd just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you'd be better off accidentally than you've ever been on purpose!
Andrew Wommack
#98. So you've not only somehow married Fraser's wife, but you've accidentally been raising his illegitimate son for the last fifteen years?
Diana Gabaldon
#99. My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful.
Jedediah Bila
#100. I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She's never been right since. (Tory)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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