“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.” FirstsDoneLeftStuffSidesCuttingHugeTaxesAccidentsCombinationBagsDeficitReally CoolTax CutsPentagonDeluded Author:Thomas Frank
“In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.” PeopleThinkingHumansDoeArtLeftAttentionOne ThingElementsAccidentsSufficientHuman Will Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series” MayFactsLeftNumbersPicksSeriesEightAccidentsScalesPairsSpiralsWinding Up Book:At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
“The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.” WorldMayIdeasChristianLeftBehindsModernGrewIntellectualUnderstoodEuropeAccidentsAnalysisModern Science Author:Freeman Dyson
“And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.” MenPersonsLeftWealthCommonOughtCharityAccidentsLabourNeglectUncertainHazards Author:Thomas Hobbes
“Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsHomeWantedCertainLeftSinWonderCallingSuicideFolksAccidentsAwfulFolks Home Book:The Cape Ann: A Novel Source: The Cape Ann: A Novel
“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.” WorldWellsTwoRealCountryPoliticalLeftInterestingCitiesNew YorkTelevisionTvsDirectorsHollywoodTheaterAccidentsLondonReal LifePityArtisticRanBritainReal WorldBobMost InterestingWoodyLive Tv Author:Gore Vidal
“It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.” PeopleGivingFeelsKindLittlesCharacterEyeActionLeftAudiencePiecesFatePersonalityCreaturesTasksMereInsightAccidentsCharacteristicsLatterLogicalCoincidence Author:Ernst Lubitsch
“It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.” CultureLeftSportsBaseballAncientAccidentsMonumentAncient TimesBallparksColosseum Author:Red Smith
“There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.” ChildrenHas BeensStatesLeftParentSeeingAdvantagePerfectionAccidentsImperfectUp To YouSeeing Yourself Author:Frank Pittman