Spirit of place! It is for this we travel to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel that place seen once abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents its habits its breath its name.

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents but grow out of the very essence of religion namely its absolute claims.

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century all natural disasters and all automobile accidents combined.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters relationships and themes it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find the accidents of what you stumble across.

There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.