Demolition Derby Quotes

• Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

  Daniel S. Greenberg

  New York, Car, Entering

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• It is a human demolition derby!

  Jim Ross

  Wwe, Demolition, Humans

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• I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Eight, Race

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• We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Wrestling, Creating, Presidential

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• I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.

  John Waters

  Sex, Race, Differences

  "An Evening With John Waters On Hitchhiking And Middle America". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, kuow.org. June 24, 2014.

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