Derailed Quotes

#1. Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Chaka Fattah

#2. In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

Carrie Fisher

#3. I keep my center by really making sure I am nourished and taking care of my body. I cook all of my own food and always make sure I am eating healthy, nourishing, comforting foods. I feel derailed when I don't do this.

Laura Prepon

#4. Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'

Al Yankovic

#5. There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

Amanda Marshall

#6. You might want to try to stop being so sexy and hot and cool or you'll give me a heart attack and then your plans for later will be completely derailed.

Kristen Ashley

#7. Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed an entire generation of Americans. It's the true red menace.

Arthur Jones

#8. Welcome the life that takes you off course. A plan derailed, a life surrendered, a broken bondage

Rebekah Lyons

#9. I'm gay!" Ben said, kind of loudly. That announcement momentarily derailed Austin's maturity-seeking train. "Really, dude? 'Cause you don't ping my gaydar even a little. Are you sure?

Kim Fielding

#10. If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

Joe Flaherty

#11. I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

Joni Mitchell

#12. My life is a train and it has derailed.

Amelia Mysko

#13. She had been derailed, delayed, detained forever at the side of the road in a town surrounded by nothingness.

Kat Rosenfield

#14. We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

John F. Kerry

#15. But no matter what the dictionary says, in my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train. Given that, I've had three and a half problems. A dead guy in my bed, substance abuse, and manic-depression.

Carrie Fisher

#16. You'll have to read the book, and don't interrupt me. It's distracting enough looking at you. You've already derailed my brain train with your face several times.

Penny Reid

#17. Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything.

Fawn Weaver

#18. This damn ring had derailed her life. No wonder Gollum had gone insane.

Karina Bliss

#19. I love metaphors. I've never been on this train ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

Serena Williams

#20. As Dean dialed and Mike watched, Dusty left her perch on the couch and came to him. He looked down at her, again sliding an arm around her waist as both her arms circled his middle. So, Debbie's derailed. Wanna go upstairs and celebrate

Kristen Ashley

#21. Christianity was derailed when Bible Schools became certification centers for true apostles of Christ. Where is the Holy Spirit? John 16:13

Felix Wantang

#22. I thought that I'd always just do Broadway, my original plan, but that was derailed.

Toni Trucks

#23. What can you say about the family who is suing the railroad after their drunk son was killed walking on the tracks? Trains don't normally sneak up on people. Unless they've derailed, you pretty much know where to find them.

David Sedaris

#24. In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

Laura Hillenbrand

#25. If you're a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has been spying inside my house, All Joy is a must-read for those of us whose lives have been enriched and derailed by having kids.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#26. If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again.

Dan Pearce

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

Clint Bowyer

#28. If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out there into the world and they're going to hit some kind of setback, like everybody does, and they're going to get completely derailed.

Paul Tough

#29. By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Harvey MacKay

#30. I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

Henry Louis Gates

#31. Derailed. In exile. Deeply ashamed, despised. Yet she had so little pride, she was grateful most days simply to be alive.
There is Minimalist art; there are minimalist lives.

Joyce Carol Oates