“It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.”

“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 (1961) American children's writer

“I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Hasslehoff, your liver is so shriveled, black, and dead. If you put your ear to your side you can hear it going "What you talking bout Willis."”

Greg Giraldo (1965–2010) American comedian

“I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

“You want to talk to someone: first open your ears.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Muriel, you're not a convenience. I'd walk across a mile of cut glass in my bare feet to hold your hand and talk to you for one hour. You're everything to me.--Walt”

Robyn Carr American writer

“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

“Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

“The problem is we have this thin atmosphere and a lot of people trying to breathe it. It's this thinness of the atmosphere that has allowed humankind to accidentally change the climate of the planet.”

Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer