Crash Quotes - Page 19

• Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,' said Otto. 'And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is . . . zer castle" a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.' He sighed. 'In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Home, Eye

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• Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.

  Jack Johnson

  Wool, Sunglasses, Afternoon

  Song: Sleep Through The Static, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008

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• I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore.

  Dave Pelzer

  Beautiful, Ocean, Blow

  Dave Pelzer (2010). “A Child Called It”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

  Will Self

  Past, Order, Years

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• We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Believe, Blind

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

  Michael Palin

  Atheist, Morning, Believe

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• Nothing provides the antidote to narcissism, or the environment for the healthy raising of children, or the way for people to take care of one another, as does the marriage of a man and a woman. And while most divorces are terribly sad, divorce itself no more undermines the institution of marriage than car crashes undermine the institution of driving.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Divorce, Men

  "The 'Divorce Threatens Marriage' Lie" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 12, 2005.

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• And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.

  Jane Seymour

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

  Charlie Sheen

  People, Mad, Guy

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• Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Car, Racism, Tragedy

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• I know I will die in a car crash.

  Katie Price

  Car, Knows, Dies

  "Katie Price: 'People think I'm not normal'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2010.

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• In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

  Dennis Quaid

  Thinking, Color, Pilots

  "Dennis Quaid Interview - THE EXPRESS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. October 7, 2008.

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• There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

  Norman Mailer

  Knowing, World, Wave

  "The Armies of the Night". Book by Norman Mailer, 1968.

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• I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

  Beck

  Remember You, Remembers You, Guitar

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Wall, Party

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.

  J. K. Rowling

  Suits Of Armor, Castles, Done

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• After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

  J. G. Ballard

  Safety, Car, Relief

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• Everyone crashes Some get back on Some don't Some can't.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Bikers, Get Back

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• Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Flames, Doe

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• A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began

  Steven Morrissey

  Real, Hands, Long

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• When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Jobs, Children

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• A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

  J. G. Ballard

  Drama, Car, Desire

  Penthouse magazine Interview, September 1970.

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• I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

  Tom Stoppard

  Music, Mean, Two

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• The next Wall Street crash is just around the corner. The meltdown of the climate is coming. The wolves are at the door, all kinds of them. We need to stand up and provide the solutions that are there, that are affordable.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, Doors, Next

  Source: www.pqmonthly.com

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• I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.

  Rhea Seehorn

  Exercise, Decision, Acting

  "Rhea Seehorn of Better Call Saul: Learning from Loved Ones". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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