Car Crash Quotes:

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 (if there is such a thing).

- J. G. Ballard

source: Penthouse magazine Interview, September 1970.

topic: Drama, Car, Desire, Libido, Car Crash

Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (1994). “Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides”, Crown Pub

topic: Technology, Years, People, Car Crash, Cellular

I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Car, Feelings, Hitting, Car Crash

There was no other sound in the world like a car crash.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Car, Sound, World, Car Crash

After years of training [as astronaut], you have great confidence in the technology. When you get in your car, you probably feel safe too, even though thousands of people die in car crashes every year.

- Ulrich Walter

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Technology, Years, People, Great Confidence, Car Crash

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

topic: Pain, Car, People, Car Crash

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Car, Racism, Tragedy, Car Crash

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

- Jim Bishop

topic: Patience, Two, Car, Car Crash, Caskets

Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Nice, Car, Crash, Car Crash, Nice Cars

For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.

- Karan Mahajan

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: People, Car, Overcoming, Car Crash

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.

- Stephen King

source: "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

topic: Spring, Book, Writing, Car Crash, Dictation

The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

- Mohamed Al-Fayed

source: "Mohamed Al Fayed to sue U.S. government to get documents on Diana and Dodi" by Raju Chebium, www.cnn.com. August 30, 2000.

topic: Reality, Two, Drunk, Car Crash, Drunk Driving

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

- Melinda Gates

topic: Depression, Suicidal, Thinking, Car Crash

The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Airplane, Golf, Differences, Car Crash, Airplane Crashes

I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.

- Nando Parrado

topic: Good Life, Winning, Thinking, Car Crash, Bad People

What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Father, Eye, Son, Forest Fires, Car Crash

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

- Kid Rock

topic: Two, Grandparent, Car, Car Crash

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

- David Mitchell

source: "Once upon a life: David Mitchell" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

topic: Winning, Voice, Giving, Car Crash

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.

- Warren Ellis

topic: Car, Forever, Brain, Car Crash

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

- Nikki Sixx

topic: Fun, Race, Car, Car Crash

She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle

- Henry Rollins

source: Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.27, Villard

topic: Eye, Thinking, Men, Wreckage, Car Crash

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

- Stephanie Beacham

topic: Car, People, Asking, Car Crash

When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.

- Will Forte

topic: Brother, Kids, Thinking, Car Crash

Jesse Jackson was involved in a three-car crash this weekend. I understand that no one was hurt, but I understand that two of the women in the other cars are now pregnant.

- Jay Leno

topic: Hurt, Weekend, Two, Car Crash

I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.

- Jeff Baena

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Views, Car, Hurricanes, Car Crash

Nothing provides the antidote to narcissism, or the environment for the healthy raising of children, or the way for people to take care of one another, as does the marriage of a man and a woman. And while most divorces are terribly sad, divorce itself no more undermines the institution of marriage than car crashes undermine the institution of driving.

- Dennis Prager

source: "The 'Divorce Threatens Marriage' Lie" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 12, 2005.

topic: Children, Divorce, Men, Car Crash

I know I will die in a car crash.

- Katie Price

source: "Katie Price: 'People think I'm not normal'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2010.

topic: Car, Crash, Knows, Car Crash

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.

- Amanda Ripley

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Smart, Car, People, Lack Of Control, Car Crash

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Children, Cancer, War, Dashing, Car Crash

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

- Steve Coogan

topic: People, Car, Might, Car Crash

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

- Chris Gethard

source: "Manic And Depressed, 'I Didn't Like Who I Was,' Says Comic Chris Gethard". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 24, 2016.

topic: Suicide, People, Judging, Car Crash

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives.

- Quentin Tarantino

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

topic: Real, Car, Watches, Car Crash

It's fascinating watching the debates [of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], with the search for the new president. It's like a car crash, unfolding in front of your eyes. The level of personal attacks!

- Gordon Ramsay

source: Source: variety.com

topic: Eye, Car, President, Car Crash, Personal Attacks

Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.

- Michael Hutchence

topic: Sweet, Men, Rocks, Overdose, Funny Men

If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.

- Aaron Gillespie

topic: Mom, Morning, Hate, Car Crash

Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2010). “Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

topic: Men, Thinking, Car, Car Crash

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

- Mark-Paul Gosselaar

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Careers, People, Motorcycle, Car Crash

When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.

- Cornelia Parker

topic: Ideas, People, Car, Car Crash

Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

- J. G. Ballard

source: "JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty". Interview with Jean-Paul Coillard, www.jgballard.ca. 1998.

topic: Meaningful, Art, Sex, Car Crash, Virtual Reality

The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.

- Bruce Schneier

topic: Worry, Car, Domestic Violence, Car Crash

I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.

- Erik Naggum

source: Re: How is perl braindamaged? (was Re: Is LISP dying?) (Usenet article), groups.google.com. July 28, 1999.

topic: New York, Cities, Names, Hang Over, Car Crash

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

- Alexandra Fuller

source: Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.215, Random House

topic: Heart, People, Car, Car Crash, Heart Attack

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Husband, Father, Caring, Dashing, Car Crash

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

- Pete Wentz

topic: Heart, Long, Car, Car Crash