Wrecks Quotes - Page 15

• Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

  James Hunt

  Car, Grids, Shaking

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• I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Writing, Simple

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

  Audrey Hepburn

  Girl, Shade, Breakfast At Tiffanys

  "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961.

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• I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Girl, Father, Boys

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• I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

  Corey Haim

  Nervous, Hell, Downers

  "Corey Haim: a career in clips" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just be a wreck!

  Jeremy London

  Moving, Stronger, Sentimental

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• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rain, Clouds, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!

  Robert South

  Men, Eden, Athens

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• The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Nice, Princess, Unique

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• The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.

  Clive James

  Moving, Woods, Kind

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• It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

  David Bowie

  Needs, Patterns, Down And

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• If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around.

  Joan Rivers

  Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.

  Taylor Swift

  Party, Unique, Train Wrecks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Lying, Ocean, Able

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

  Sun Tzu

  Victory, Execution, Strategy

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• My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Jobs, Team

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• Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sports, Men, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Winning, Talking

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.141, Vintage

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• I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Philosophy, Suicidal, Bored

  Letter to Alfred Galpin (27 May 1918), in "Letters to Alfred Galpin" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 18), 2003.

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