#wreck

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. ↗

— Ovid

#even #experienced #man #sea #shipwreck

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#car #come #day #during #family

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy! ↗

— Patsy Cline

#brand-new #called #car #crazy #fall

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#better #danger #encounters #hurricane #lee

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#i #make #sure #want #wreck

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. ↗

— Tony Danza

#bad #compelling #help #interviews #into

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#blown #concentrate #i #i love #keeping

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#going #i #literary #london #me

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#better #better quality #billion #bring #century

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#artist #beyond #excessively #him #literature