Wrecks Quotes - Page 6

• People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

  Taylor Swift

  Eye, Train Wrecks, Two

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Should Have, Apartment, Wanted

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

  Donald Trump

  Looks, Nervous, Cruz

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Effort, Shadow, May

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family. Having lost my mom, who I was so extremely close to, now I feel so vulnerable when somebody gets sick or hurt. I become a complete wreck until they're well. Even if it's a cold! I compare myself to Marlin in Finding Nemo.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Mom, Hurt, Sick

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.

  George Clooney

  Looks, Down And, Sides

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to be able to trust someone completely; so you need to be able to think you can trust them. But that doesn't mean you can't have extraordinary feelings for other people and not feel guilty about them, but not necessarily go and wreck marriages and consummate, and you don't have to do all that.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Mean, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My mom's disease, Hodgkin's disease, wiped us out financially. We eventually lost our businesses. I understand we're all one car wreck from needing help.
  But what it told Lindsey Graham, above all else, is that family, friends and faith really do matter. I'm a lucky man to have had all the support I've had all these years.

  Lindsey Graham

  Mom, Men, Years

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

  Alan Clark

  Work, Apology, Giving

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• We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Done, World

  George Bernard Shaw (1987). “Back to Methuselah”, p.443, Penguin UK

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• It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

  Francis James Grimke

  Men, Soul, Written

  Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

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• Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

  Roger Michell

  Cutting, Sea, Stories

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• When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

  Bryn Terfel

  Summer, Winter, Emotional

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• I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

  Gordon Strachan

  Home, Bridges, Alcoholics

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• A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

  John Ortberg

  Car, Slow Down, Happened

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• Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

  Diana Lopez

  Mother, Children, Next

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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

  Lindsey Graham

  Car, People, Helping

  "Sen. Lindsey Graham on fighting Islamic State, shoring up Social Security". www.pbs.org. June 4, 2015.

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• We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

  Dudley Nichols

  Children, Order, Law

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• We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.

  Chuck Comeau

  Together, Band, Records

  "Simple Plan Reveal New Album Plans, Talk 5sos & Warped Tour". Interview with Maria Sherman, www.fuse.tv. July 22, 2015.

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• The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, Regret, Years

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.96, Modern Library

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• There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?

  Armie Hammer

  Hands, Two, Paper

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• New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit.

  Julie Smith

  Heart, New Orleans, August

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• Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.

  E. Lee Spence

  Running, Rocks, Years

  "Concordia Not the First Sunk by Treacherous Reef" by Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News, February 7, 2012.

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• Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

  Susan Straight

  Decent

  Susan Straight (2013). “Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights: A Novel”, p.29, Open Road Media

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