Crash Quotes - Page 20

• I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

  John Mayer

  Pain, Car, People

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• I want the music to stand out a little bit more than many other bands do. I still have some stuff where I don't use the high hat, and I don't use any crash cymbals. It just makes for an interesting sound because you don't really notice it when it's not there, but if it was there, you would definitely hear it.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Interesting, Cymbals, Stuff

  "The Raveonettes". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2008.

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• There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there was a lot of hype about life sciences, around the sequencing of the human genome and a lot of people concluded that's not really there. But by the way, there was a lot of hype around the digital revolution just about the time of 2000 and the human genome, and it turns out that some of the world's biggest, most powerful companies are the survivors post that crash.

  Juan Enriquez

  Powerful, Hype, Digital Revolution

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Running, Witty

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

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• I think what happened in the last 10 or 15 years in the art market is that all the players - and that includes artists, dealers, art advisors, everyone - basically became dealers. We've had old-school collectors morph into speculators, flipping works. We've seen auction houses buying works directly from artists or from sleazy middlemen. The last step before the crash was the artists themselves supplying the auction houses. Dealing themselves, you know? The art world is as unregulated as any financial market there is.

  Diego Cortez

  Art, Player, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

  Ellen Hopkins

  Real, Sleep, Night

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

  John Oliver

  People, Watches, Driving

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• Stocks always go down much faster than they go up. That's why it's called a crash. People who put their money into the stocks will find, all of a sudden, that stock prices are no longer being supported by the debt leveraging that's been holding them up.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Debt, Faster

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Liberty

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• Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45

  Pete Wentz

  Heart, Long, Car

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• I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wall, Mind, Bangs

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• Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

  Glen Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Animal

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Bumps, Arms

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• Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Nuts, Mutual Interest

  Dave Barry (2007). “Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)”, p.98, Penguin

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• His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

  Franz Kafka

  Doors, Anxiety, Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

  Jamie Ford

  Mountain, Care, Way

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• I grew up being a huge fan of Bruce Lee, and this quote always stuck out to me. He said, "Water can flow, or it can crash. If you put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot." It always made sense to me to adapt the flow and roll with whatever the situation is and to not think about it too much and get caught up in it. It works easier for me that way.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Thinking, Water, Too Much

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

  Anais Nin

  Dancer, Ballet, Vehemence

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• I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and I maintained that. So really good, but more impressive than classically trained. So I had to take a crash course in classical technique because I really wanted to get away with playing this character [in Florence Foster Jenkins] without people saying, "That's not really accurate."

  Simon Helberg

  Stars, Character, Years

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Years, Iceland

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save the banks from bankruptcy and people from being evicted from their homes, is that this kind of life is unsustainable. We cannot go on like this... something must be done.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Home, Ideas, People

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Car, Choices, Stairs

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• I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Simple, Sea

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.

  Jenny Downham

  Reality, Numbers, Promise

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