Train Wrecks Quotes:

People still want to escape, but today's escape is different. People now want to know that there are people out there who have more problems and are a train-wreck! This is why I think it's difficult for sitcoms these days, because people are not going to believe, joke, beat, beat, joke, because there ain't nothing to laugh about.

- Darius McCrary

source: "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

topic: Believe, Thinking, Train Wrecks

In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you have picked a dream that is bigger than you personally, that truly reflects the ideals that you cherish, and that can positively affect others, then you will always have another reason for carrying on.

- Pamela Melroy

topic: Dream, Journey, Train Wrecks

When they've shut down, you get more nervous. They react to that, and it's just this hideous shame spiral. Although sometimes that can be some good train-wreck TV. That's another reason it's definitely difficult - when you are just not connecting, and it's there for the world to see.

- Jancee Dunn

topic: Train Wrecks, World, Tvs

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

- Charlie Sheen

topic: Night, Train Wrecks, Lasts, Shameful

It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel”, p.244, Macmillan

topic: Train Wrecks, Happenings, Fronts

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

- Lisa McMann

source: Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

topic: College, Train Wrecks, Ovaries

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

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Party, Unique, Train Wrecks, Flukes

If it doesn't work, at least it will be an interesting train wreck.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Funny, Humor, Train Wrecks

Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck.

- John Boehner

source: "Immigration Battle". Film by Shari Robertson, Michael Camerini, www.pbs.org. 2015.

topic: Struggle, Train Wrecks, Growth, Obama Care

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: The Image ch. 1 (1962)

topic: Train Wrecks, Earthquakes, Events

People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: School, Feel Better, Train Wrecks

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.

- Tyne Daly

topic: Class, Train Wrecks, Life Is, High Class

I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1702, Dell

topic: Train Wrecks, Trying, Safe

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

- Billy Corgan

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Train Wrecks

We’re vampires,” he said. “Not fairies.” “Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?” “He’s nearly blind.” “Which explains why he hasn’t hanged himself in that pastel train wreck.” “I thought you were bitching about the gloom-and-doom decorating?” “I free-associate.

- J.R. Ward

source: J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.252, Penguin

topic: Kings, Train Wrecks, Vampire, Decorating, Pastel

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.

- Jane Jacobs

source: Source: www.metropolismag.com

topic: Thinking, Train Wrecks, Political

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

- Ellen Pompeo

topic: People, Watches, Wrecks, Train Wrecks

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

- Patsy Cline

topic: Song, Crazy, Fall, Car Wreck, Emotional Wreck

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

- Pete Wentz

topic: People, Creative, Wrecks, Train Wrecks

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Eye, Two, Long, Train Wrecks

Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow,

- Clint Bowyer

topic: Wrecks, Ends, Train, Train Wrecks

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Who I Am, Trying, Nerves, Train Wrecks

Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something of a miracle to me to be on the receiving end of all that acceptance. The dog didn't care what I looked like, or what I did for a living, or what a train wreck of a life I'd led before I got her, or what we did from day to day. She just wanted to be with me, and that awareness gave me a singular sensation of delight.

- Caroline Knapp

source: Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.34, Dial Press

topic: Dog, Acceptance, Miracle, Train Wrecks

Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

- Naz?m Hikmet

topic: Baby, Jobs, Cancer, Pox, Whooping Cough

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

- Eric Cantor

topic: Kids, Simple, Wrecks, Train Wrecks, Plain And Simple

Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Progress, Delight, Wrecks, Train Wrecks

I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.

- Max Baucus

source: "Friday Lightning Round: ObamaCare criticism from Democrats". "Special Report", www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2013.

topic: Memorable, Wrecks, Results, Train Wrecks

On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.

- Matt Dickinson

topic: Failure, Champion, Finals, Train Wrecks

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

- Walter Mosley

source: Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.21, Penguin

topic: World, Wrecks, Survivor, Modern World, Train Wrecks

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

topic: Song, Writing, Simple, Train Wrecks

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

topic: Nice, Princess, Unique, Suburbs, Ducklings

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

- Taylor Dane

topic: Issues, Dating, Had Enough, Train Wrecks