Crashing Quotes

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up – a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

No one had ever educated me on mental health. I really didn’t understand why I would be feeling high on life, and everything was brilliant, and then suddenly I would be crashing into a deep hole.

You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing… and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

I don’t have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

Jihadis want to watch the world burn, to bring everything crashing down, to destroy the establishment and rebuild it after their own pitiless vision. This misguided utopianism is what makes them such effective bogeymen.

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just – people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

We were unfortunate in having lost our only child. Our world had come crashing down. But thanks to the world of medical miracles, we’ve become parents again at an age when parenthood is considered impossible.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

The only pictures you saw of me when I was playing, I was crashing into a centre forward! Or running down a line to save my team. I’m not gonna be happy, be smiling.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I’d say one example is the market crashing. It’s like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

There’s too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I’d jump any ramp, I’d jump over people, I’d jump over things – always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn’t necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing.

I live in Wellington now but I love going back to the farm where all you can hear are the cows or the sea crashing in about a kilometre away. Our uncle‘s farm is on the beach and we are one up from that towards the mountain.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.

As a former track cyclist I know only too well the risk of crashing. You don’t dwell on it when you are competing but there are lots of moments when you are close to serious accidents.

It seems like everyone is stretching themselves too thin and then crashing out in their 40s.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

That’s what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart – still before I go on stage – crashing out of my chest. That’s thrilling to me.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping – insurance agencies, nonprofits – and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn’t even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.

It’s not really possible to open ‘The Casual Vacancy‘ without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there.

I’m glad we’re not splattered all over MTV, because I don’t think that’s entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day – they were built up – and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people.

There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there’ll be flying cars for most people to use, it’ll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It’ll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

When you in the positive light and good space, do everything to keep it that way and be real careful what you say and how you move because your world can come crashing down on you.

When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.

When I’m cruising around on my bike, I feel completely free, but I share my possessions. My friends can always borrow my motorcycles. Even if they end up crashing them, it’s OK with me.

It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.

Shorting saved my butt in 2008… Shorting kept me in the game. It generates cash when the market’s crashing. And that’s what you want when the market’s crashing – cash.

Age, they say, is only important if you’re cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days – it’s possible to do extraordinary feats.

When people hear the phrase ‘risk-taker’, two images come to mind. One is the negative idea of someone who’s reckless and unpredictable, sometimes succeeding and at other times crashing out. The other is a more positive view of a fearless innovator who takes risks when others nervously stand back.

Playing two bigs out there is always a lot of fun. Banging on the rebounds, crashing the glass. It always feels better when you got another big down there with you.

When you set yourself up to be apart from rest of mankind, you’re in danger of crashing further than they ever could. That’s the trouble with royalty, after all.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

Crashing could not be more inconsiderate to a host. It is a negative act because hosts likely have a particular plan for the event, an intention to move guests‘ attitudes in a certain direction.

I always laugh and say I met God on the way up, and I got to know him on the way down. And so, as I’m crashing and losing everything, a lot of people run to God when they are struggling. And I was no exception.

My cottage is on Lake Huron and it’s always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

If there’s one thing that 2009 showed us, it’s that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

In some ways, trying to win cups is more fraught than trying to win the league, as one really bad night and everything comes crashing down.

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

Boston‘s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

I’d love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.