Quotes of Crash - somelinesforyou

“ When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. ”

- Desmond Tutu

“ A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on. ”

- Mick Miller

“ There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts. ”

- Laurence Olivier

“ I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash! ”

- Lee Ryan

“ You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. ”

- Paul Theroux

“ I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. ”

- Billy Bob Thornton

“ When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. ”

- Linus Torvalds

“ O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. ”

- Linda Ronstadt

“ I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past. ”

- Eric Lindros

“ I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said. ”

- Jeff Garcia

“ The love boat has crashed against the everyday. ”

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

“ Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. ”

- Wernher Von Braun

“ The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. ”

- Horace

“ If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of aviation. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ”

- Amelia Earhart

“ Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom. ”

- Jolene Blalock

“ I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below. ”

- Mario Cuomo

“ You heard a leaf fall, she heard a house crash. ”

- Gerold Frank

“ Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. ”

- Vernon Howard

“ A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status — all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido ”

- J. G. Ballard

“ A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had. ”

- Guy Kawasaki

“ I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD… I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it. ”

- Jim Morrison

“ I was about 11 when I came to the U.S. in '69. I got a crash course in baseball that October when the Mets won the World Series. Even though we moved to northern New York, it was a Yankees town if anything. The Mets were my team from then on. I've stuck with them through thick and thin. ”

- Viggo Mortensen

“ Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it? ”

- Jack Palance

“ The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had. ”

- Guy Kawasaki

“ They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton
  • 1
  • 2