Wreck Quotes

I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.

People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.

Everybody’s a train wreck in their own very special way. But there’s something wildly freeing about someone who’s unapologetic, who knows they’re a wreck and doesn’t even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

I’m attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there’s no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

For whatever reason, whenever I’m having a get-together, I’ll turn on my projector and play YouTube videos of ‘Russian driving fails.’ Russians all have dashboard cameras in their cars, so there are all these videos of crazy wrecks and people almost getting hit in the street. It’s a conversation starter, for sure.

Our collective consciousness is a giant train wreck, no one wishes anyone well anymore and the worst bit is its played out online for all of us to feed off and opine about.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don’t drink any more, because that’s when I thought, you know, I’m gonna end up a car wreck.

I was a scared kid… I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else’s lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

I don’t know how many bands I saw who would try to wreck a hotel room, but I never wrecked a hotel room in my life! If I’m gonna sit there and throw a TV out the window… if it’s a good TV, maybe I should just take it home.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won’t love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.

I’m kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it’s easier for me to stay that way. If I don’t have the right tools, I’m a train wreck.

I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop.

To do a train wreck and make it look real on screen is tremendously skilful.

I think there’s a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it’s all going to end and we’re mortal. I envy dogs. They don’t know they’re getting old! And they don’t know it’s towards the end. I mean, they never think, ‘I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don’t get 19, I’m a wreck.’

People’s opinions don’t interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That’s what they call ageing gracefully. You know?

I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.

I did wreck a running machine once at Seville. I was only supposed to be doing 12 minutes, but I went on for 15, and it suddenly packed in. I had to hang on to the side to make sure I didn’t fall.

To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you’d have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.

I don’t think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.

My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers.

As one of the participants in the Aqaba summit, I can testify that Israel fully expected the Palestinian Authority’s newly reorganized and trained security agencies to take harsh action against the rejectionists who sought to wreck the peace process.

It’s short-track racing. You’re going to get that and it’s going to happen. I don’t know why everybody thought it was the end of the world when wrecks were going to happen. Like I said, with close-quarter racing like that it’s going to get heated.

Sometimes when you’re with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it’s so hard to break up with them. You don’t know what they’re going to wreck and destroy.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports’ appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they’re no different from movies; they’re scripted.

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

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

As a part owner, I’m going to be not only an admirer… but a nervous wreck.

A lot of people don’t like to spend money on a journal because they’re afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.

If I’m chatting to someone who’s an anxious wreck and I don’t understand it, because I’ve never been anxious, then it’s strange. There’s no real way of talking to them about it without saying, ‘I’ve no idea what you’re talking about. I’m better than you.’

So many of the pleasures of recreational scuba diving don’t exist for the deep wreck diver. It’s not beautiful scenery for the most part; in fact, it’s usually very dark. It’s physically burdensome. These guys carry almost two hundred pounds of equipment, and should any of that equipment fail, they risk death.

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

After my head injury, I was, like, bipolar, an emotional wreck.

I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and… look for wrecks. Then, six months later, I might start another book.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

I’d probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they’ve never been exposed to real life.

I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it’s amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, ‘This is it; my life is a train wreck.’ And then you bounce back again.

It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like ‘Wreck on the Highway.’ It ain’t a funny song.

People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don’t look for treasure or artifacts.

I need to stay disciplined on the road. Too much food can wreck your palate.

Here’s the thing about The Go-Go’s: Onstage, any moment could be a total train wreck.

I love Penelope Cruz and Tilda Swinton, and I love Marisa Tomei. I feel like I get compared to her a lot, which I think is the biggest compliment, because she’s incredible. Debi Mazar I get a lot, and I love her, because I feel like we have similar stories. New York, club kid, just a complete train wreck, very independent.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

I try my best to keep the house looking clean, but honestly, with four kids, you can find plenty of messes. I don’t have a special technique other than I can’t focus when the house is a wreck, so cleaning is therapeutic for me. That works in my favor sometimes.

When people say Evel’s a stuntmen I want to throw up. He’s nothing but a daredevil idiot. The only reason he’s famous is because he wrecks his motorcycle every time he rides.

I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it’s a commercial, not that that’s a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it’s a commercial or a movie where I’m shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I’m doing a performance thing.

We lived in this ghetto during the worst excesses of the Seventies. When the tartan gangs came to wreck our estate, we had to defend it. We were barricaded in with diggers and earth-movers. It wasn’t a case of joining the Republican cause, or the IRA – we were fighting for our very existence.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won’t stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.

Well, I’ve been in a few car wrecks.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

I’m a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck.

I could have been bigger, but I wasn’t controversial enough. I didn’t do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.

High school was so much fun, and it wasn’t a wreck at all.

I was actually shooting ‘Warm Bodies’ on the day that ’50/50′ came out, which I don’t recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn’t obsess all day and be checking how ’50/50′ was doing!

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, ‘Son, you should write a song about your brother.’

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide – against those things, there is no conventional guard.

There’s no right way to do it or wrong way to do it – that’s why so many drivers have been caught in wrecks at Talladega.

One lesson I learned from ‘The Monstrumologist’ was never to get too attached to your own characters. That’s harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book – which coincided with the end of my contract – I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

If I were to say I’m looking for treasure, people would come up with the money. When I say I’m looking for a historic wreck, they’re not interested.

I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I’d just sit there and shift.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.

My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she’ll say she was a wreck. There’s plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be heard. There were eight children!

I’m not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don’t stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It’s my passion. It’s what I want to do with my life. It’s a part of what I do.

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.

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

Mahesh doesn’t show his own anxieties when his films are up for release, but I become a nervous wreck.

I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.

Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.

Throughout school, I’ve faced ridicule and been complexed about my appearance. I almost turned into a nervous wreck. Peer pressure is bad. Children can be really cruel. Specially if you’re not like everyone else.

With ‘Get Hurt,’ we wanted to see where else we could go with the band. We thought it was time to change things up a bit. The song itself is similar to the feeling of a wreck you see coming, but long past the point you can avoid it.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It’s quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It’s kind of a happy train wreck.

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

If a producer has 5 million bucks tied up in a picture, he’s not about to let a guy like Burt Reynolds wreck a car when he can get a dummy like me to do it. But some stars would make good stuntmen. Reynolds is one of them. Bob Fuller and Doug McClure are strong, tough guys with plenty of courage, too.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

From the minute you find out you’re pregnant, I believe it’s a workout, because you’re constantly trying to monitor what you eat and what you do, especially for the first three months. I was a nervous wreck.

I’m in the mood for ‘Shark Tank’ sometimes. When I am, my son and I can’t stop watching. But I probably watch ‘The Bachelor’ more, and Scott Foley and I text about it, like, ‘Oh my God, did you see that?!’ I love it. It’s such a train wreck.