Quotes About Car Crashes

#1. 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

#2. Remembering the sound of metal clanging against wet tar sent chills up my spine. Car crashes always seemed like they couldn't happen to normal people, like me and Kona. But now I know that death can happen to anyone.

Jessica Mitchell

#3. I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

Douglas Coupland

#4. 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. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

Quentin Tarantino

#5. 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

#6. I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

Craig Venter

#7. FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me - because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)

James Patterson

#8. Sometimes you can see car crashes from a long way off, if the road is straight and both vehicles are heading towards each other in the same lane.

Nick Hornby

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Everyone was always in danger, after all. From cancer, from car crashes and plane crashes, from criminals. Most people managed denial; managed to pretend they were safe.

John Shirley

#12. Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

Helen Keller

#14. When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

Tom Hiddleston

#15. Find a Way or Make a Way

Gary Jennings

#16. I spent the whole morning looking at him. He looked at Mama. Mama looked at me. Then he would look at me. I would look at Mama. She would look at him. In different circumstances, I'd be amused.

Melina Marchetta

#17. Privilege" is something else.
"Privilege" is a judgment.
"Privilege" is an opinion.
"Privilege" is an accusation.

Joan Didion

#18. For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

Vera Nazarian

#19. The 'Phoenix Sun' did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one. I beat out Bin Laden. He's a terrorist, hasn't bathed in months. I beat him out. To me it was a great honor.

Gilbert Gottfried

#20. People go to car races to watch the crashes.

Johnny Knoxville

#21. In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

Will Self

#22. To earn the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.

Sara Sheridan

#24. Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Muhammad Ali

#25. I regret my childhood was cut so short by my adulthood.

Joseph DiFrancesco

#26. Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.

Conan O'Brien

#27. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.

Joan Didion

#28. When Jobs saw the corporate fitness center, he was astonished that executives had an area, with its own whirlpool, separate from that of the regular employees.

Walter Isaacson

#29. I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

Pat Conroy

#30. That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch.

Patrick Ness