Train Wrecks Quotes

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts.

I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck.

You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.

There's a lot of, you know, kind of train wreck TV reality shows out there.

And I think Tori & Dean is a great show that really focuses on family, focuses on couples to show that everyone can watch together and enjoy. And that's what makes me the most proud.

You cannot embrace the action or play the role correctly if you're having someone else do the movements for you. I want to be doing it myself, unless it's going to be a train wreck.

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.

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.

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.

I think everybody should see ('The Star Wars Holiday Special') to realize how bad something can be. There are some cool things in there, but it's two hours long, and you could probably cut it down to about two minutes and twelve seconds of cool material. The animated Boba Fett sequence is great, and there's some cool stuff, but overall, the whole format of a variety show in the 'Star Wars' universe is just a train wreck.

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.

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.

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.

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.