Quotes of: Plane-crash Keyword

Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.

James Surowiecki

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.

Rebecca Pidgeon

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

Umberto Eco

As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.

Suzy Menkes

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Horace

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

Ice Cube

If we really feared the crash, most of us would be unable to look at a car, let lone drive one.

J.G. Ballard

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

Desmond Tutu

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

Evel Knievel

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

Eric Lindros

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.

Johnny Depp

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

James Longstreet

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

Lindsey Vonn

[the Incredibles crash/park their RV] Mr. Incredible: Is everybody okay back there? Violet: Super duper, Dad. Dash: Let's do that again!

The Incredibles

Emmet: Uh, guys? We're about to crash into the sun. Batman: Yeah, but it's gonna look really cool.

The Lego Movie

James Bond: [dodging an explosion] Was that for me? Raoul Silva: [laughing] No, but that is. [a subway train crashes after Bond]

Skyfall

Obi-Wan: [crashing towards the hangar] Oh, I have a bad feeling about this.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Flynn Rider: Ha! You should see your faces because you look - [crashes into a beam] Flynn Rider: ... ridiculous.

Tangled

Magneto: [Magneto uses his power to stop the X-Jet from crashing] When will these people learn how to fly?

X2

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

J. G. Ballard

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

David Millar