Crash Quotes - Page 12

• But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Worry, Landing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

  Barney Frank

  Grateful, Funny Graduation, Swim

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• The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Nature, Children, Compassion

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• Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

  Molly Ivins

  Depressing, Debt, Statistics

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• Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

  Richard Branson

  Art, Calling, Half

  Sir Richard Branson (2010). “Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space”, p.46, Random House

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• I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

  Bode Miller

  Years, Goggles, Noses

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• You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Destiny

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• We got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five, She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye, It's interesting when people die give us dirty laundry...

  Don Henley

  Song, Dirty, Eye

  "Dirty Laundry". Song by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, October 12, 1982.

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• You can't take a crash course in serenity.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Peace, Serenity, Courses

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• What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards? One business matra remains embedded in my brain - protect the downside.

  Richard Branson

  Tumbling Down, House, Decision

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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

  Don Williams

  Sea, Wave, Glorious

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• The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

  Stacey Levine

  Ironic, Creepy, Hilarity

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• In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

  Brian Eno

  Art, Planes, Walks

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• Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

  Jared Diamond

  Motivation, Inspiration, Today

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• It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego
  because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself
  It is like a wave
  it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really
  it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again
  pulls itself together with pride
  towers with pride
  rushes forward into imaginary conquest
  crashes in frustration
  withdraws with remorse and repentance
  pulls itself together with new resolution

  Agnes Martin

  Pride, Frustration, Ego

  Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway (1973). “Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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• When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an alien spaceship crash-lands on stage midway through the talk, the silence before I begin is the most powerful moment I have. What defines how well I'll do starts with how I use the power of that moment.

  Scott Berkun

  Powerful, Land, Silence

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• They're both a bit cavalier about the whole thing at first; more than anything, they seem to think that it's going to be a lot of fun. Which it is, of course, but mostly in the way a plane crash is fun to reminisce about after you survive it.

  Josh Gates

  Fun, Thinking, Reminiscing

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Given the nature of market, the chance of a crash is always greater than the chance of an overnight runaway euphoria.

  Jeff Yass

  Chance, Runaway, Given

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• It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Teenage, Independent, Bird

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• People go to car races to watch the crashes.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Race, People, Car

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• Most dogs, when you hold a leash up, go nuts and run to the door. Crash, on the other hand barely looks up from his spot on the couch. His expression is saying, What the hell are you doing with that thing?

  David Rosenfelt

  Running, Dog, Doors

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• I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.

  William Shatner

  Men, Ideas, Space

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• We will not have any more crashes in our time.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Depression, Great Depression, Our Time

  "The Raven of Zurich". Book by Felix Somary, 1986.

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• I prepare for my fights to well that I don't wanna give a chance to my opponent to crash my 'glass chin' as they say, so I'm knocking them in the way that I like.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Fighting, Glasses

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