Wrecks Quotes - Page 7

• I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

  Adam Savage

  Knowing, Tools, Pace

  "Inside Adam Savage's Toolbox" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. August 22, 2012.

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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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• I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

  Patricia McConnell

  Littles, Way, Prison

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

  Pete Wentz

  Train Wrecks, People, Creative

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• The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

  Aeschylus

  Struggle, Men, Hot Headed

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• Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Suffering, Majority

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.

  Frances Wright

  Sex, Children, Struggle

  Letter to Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, on February 11, 1822. "Lafayette in Two Worlds" by Lloyd Kramer, p. 158, 1996.

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• People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Train Wrecks, People, Watches

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• It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

  Jenny Valentine

  Life, Storm, Faces

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• Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.

  Ilona Andrews

  Song, Wall, Rip

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.168, Penguin

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• I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now." - Rio

  Tina St. John

  Long, Together, Sanity

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• Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

  Homer

  War, Wine, Dark

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.4415, Delphi Classics

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• Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.

  Alistair Maclean

  Fashion, Systematic, Ruins

  Alistair MacLean (1974). “Caravan to Vaccarès”

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• As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks walking by. "You can't wreck something that's already wrecked!" Peter shouted back angrily. "Hey, Peter, we're Spirit Bears," Cole reminded his friend. "Spirit Bears are strong, gentle, and kind." Peter thought a moment. "You got mauled, so that proves they can get ticked off too.

  Ben Mikaelsen

  Strong, School, Two

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• Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy.

  Christopher Moore

  Desire, Want, Abby

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• Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in a Swedish forest, standing on the wreck of a mysterious German rocket plane while a homosexual German sobs over the cremated remains of his Italian lover?

  Neal Stephenson

  Italian, World, Rockets

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• To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, not falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Night, Thinking

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 570

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• He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Boys, Looks, Way

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• Screw the dialogue, let's wreck some cars.

  Hal Needham

  Bad Ass, Car, Dialogue

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• The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Lasts, Trumpets

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.5904, Delphi Classics

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• She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not turn him from his purpose of helping her.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (in 30 Volumes, Illustrated): Little Dorrit”, p.102, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Half, Whispering

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.9, Penguin

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• Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

  Iris Murdoch

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.156, Penguin

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• Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, May, Illusion

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 06, 2011

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• And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Survivor, Tools

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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