Car Wreck Quotes

• I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

  Patsy Cline

  Song, Crazy, Fall

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• I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that moment when they heard Earl Scruggs. So, for me, it transcends the technique. It's the musician in him and his personality, his musical personality, such great taste, such great technique, very, very creative.

  Earl Scruggs

  Player, People, Car

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• I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.

  Lucinda Williams

  Dad, Sleep, Cat

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

  Suge Knight

  Growing Up, Cancer, Cities

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Car, Kitchen, Sitting

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.

  Michael Stipe

  Morning, Car, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's one of those scenarios you feel will never happen to you. Nobody thinks they're going to be the one, whatever, to get in a car wreck to have their, you know, their kids killed in a plane crash, whatever, you don't think those things are going to happen to you. And I didn't think that I'd be traded. So.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Kids, Thinking, Car

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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, Wrecks

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

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• Lights! Lights would be very good right now! (Amanda) Since they hurt my eyes to the point I can barely see, no they wouldn't. Trust me. (Kyrian) Trust you, my left foot! I'm not immortal over here! (Amanda) Yeah, well, in a bad enough car wreck, neither am I. (Kyrian) I really hate your sense of humor. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Hate, Eye

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

  John Ortberg

  Car, Wrecks, Slow Down

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• Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

  Dave Matthews

  Car, Wrecks, Wells

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• Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.

  Nick Flynn

  Father, Moving, Men

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• 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.

  Kristin Davis

  Teenager, Car, Wrecks

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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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