Wreck Quotes

272 Wreck quotes by 239 unique authors

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. — Iris Murdoch
There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,… — Sue Monk Kidd
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked… — Charles Dickens
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. — Charles Dickens
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work. — Annie Dillard
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck… — Barbara Kingsolver
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in… — Neal Stephenson
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a… — Christopher Moore
As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks… — Ben Mikaelsen
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan… — Alistair Maclean
And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 — Lisa McMann
Lights! Lights would be very good right now! (Amanda) Since they hurt my eyes to the point I can barely see, no they wouldn't. Trust… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.'… — Craig Ferguson
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and… — Homer
I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be,… — Tina St. John
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my… — Annie Dillard
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something… — Stephen Dobyns
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? — Nicole Krauss
When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No… — John Lennon
She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern. — Margaret Mitchell
Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside… — Tana French
Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old… — Lauren Oliver

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