Crashing Quotations

I have an oval-shaped scar on the knuckle of my right index finger from crashing my hand through a light fixture while practicing Elvis Presley moves in college.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

When we have our best players on the floor working the offense and crashing the boards, we can compete with anybody. We still have a lot to learn, but we played together very well tonight.

With the new rules, there are a lot of people crashing the net. They just kind of kept coming at me.

We knew they'd play that way because they are a real physical team. It is hard to get in there and battle and box out their 7-footers, and then they have five guys crashing the boards on every shot.

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

Louisiana had been on a roll, but they literally came to a crashing halt, ... New Orleans is not going to be a good location for filming, probably for several years.

She was a beast on the boards tonight. She was crashing hard.

She's been working hard. Sam hit a nice ball and we've been working on crashing the goal.

She's been the glue. She's always doing the little things crashing the boards, making the big stop, setting the screen that gets the girl open. I can't say enough about her.

Since we were out-sized and out-weighed, we tried to utilize our quickness to fast-break as often as possible. The way (Sharon) Houston and Moore were crashing the boards, we wanted to get the ball out on the perimeter as quickly as we could.

Nobody expected us to be here, crashing the party. It's hard for me to express in words right now how proud I am of these girls. I'm especially proud of the seniors. When they were sophomores they went through a particularly hard season and stuck with it. Now, two years later, they're in the Sweet 16. It's a special group of seniors.

Of course our background is in motor sports so we have years of experience crashing cars into the wall at Indianapolis and other places. So we've tried to take our motor sports approach into the body armor field with some very different ideas.

I wouldn't say that I have faith in hedge funds per se, but I have reasonable faith in our ability to discriminately select high-quality partners, ... You're seeing a lot of hedge fund problems now because there's such mindless enthusiasm on the part of the public. A lot of the entrants are low-quality, and you've got a lot of people crashing around doing dumb things.

I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sophomores to see who will work with whom. When we were losing those points, they got a couple of fast breaks, and our defense just wasn't crashing in fast enough.

I felt like my whole world was crashing down. I was scared for my children. I was scared for my husband. I didn't know if the baby was HIV positive. I cannot tell you the emotions that went through my head,

I can't imagine any American pilot crashing an airplane into one of these buildings even with a gun to the head. They wouldn't do that.

Girls were crashing nets, (making) good crosses and we were able to finish.

I don't think we're crashing their party. We're part of this. You might as well get used to this. There are some new people in town, and you'll hopefully welcome us with open arms.

I don't think we're crashing their party. We're all part of a new league and you might as well get used to this.

For me, we're taking something that's essentially trash and trying to make something beautiful with it. It's about taking the world's refuse and shaping it into musical patterns. At home, I listen to everything, from harsh noise that sounds like a jet crashing to Simon and Garfunkel, and we try to bridge that gap in our own way. We're definitely not an alienating band.

If it's a large venue where there are multiple rooms and events happening at once, crashing is more likely to happen. Crashers are often dressed appropriately already, so it happens more easily.

He was a rare one: only 5 feet 7 inches tall, a lawyer and a combat veteran of the Korean War as a Marine officer. Eddie came from Washington in a trade in 1960 and ran the team in the first years while Don Meredith was learning. He was such a fantastic ball handler that even with sorry protection and the defensive line crashing in on him he threw a lot of beautiful long passes. The ball would fly out of the crowd like a mortar shell and sail 50 yards downfield. Eddie did everything by the numbers. If the receiver wasn't there, we knew whose fault it was.

He worked so hard to prepare for the season, changed his throwing motion, and then it all came crashing down.

We've got to keep them off the boards. They're good at crashing the boards for second and third shot attempts. So we've got to keep them off the offensive glass, and we also have to minimize our turnovers.

He's crushed. His world just came crashing down. He was expected to win and lost to a kid he beat earlier this year. He just has to get the weight off, get his head back in it and come back and get third.

He should have just eased it home instead of crashing it home.

It came to me during the storms in July, while I was watching these big breakers crashing on the beach, the image of a big horse raking at the coast.

I think the girls did a good job collectively executing and moving the ball around. It was imperative that we limited them to one shot. It was imperative that we had five people crashing the boards.

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

People have tried everything. From just single coverage, to full double teams, to staying back in a zone and to crashing down when I get the ball.

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

I was getting good position, crashing the boards offensively and defensively. I sensed they were a little tired. We knew we had to execute offensively and defensively.

I thought it would be more interesting ... to get her into power where basically her own Cabinet is against her. The whole world is crashing down on her.

I was reading a book and found myself crashing into the person opposite me. The train was going over and over and over, and people were thrown onto the floor.

We can play the same pace we want, but some of that has to do with them (the Wizards) just crashing the offensive glass. You can't run if you can't get a rebound.

We're all right. At least the roof didn't come crashing down.

We played a very good road game for two periods. We were all over them. Marty made some big saves that kept them in the game. If we play like that on the road, defensively and crashing the net, we'll be OK.

We hope our defensive pressure is as productive as it's been the last two games. We've scored a lot of points off our defense. We just need to continue boxing out and crashing the boards.

Those guys just threw everything at the net, and they were crashing the net hard.

We're definitely not shooting enough and it shows. Our style of game is getting those ugly goals. Going to the net, crashing the net, that's when we have success. We have to keep doing that and focus in on getting a lot of shots on net.

Yesterday was a rough game for me. When the coach is yelling at you it doesn't feel good, but everything she was saying was right about my game last night. I wasn't crashing the glass and I wasn't helping my team out. So today I wanted to do all those things.

We do a lot of crashing in these games. But if you're a guy like me coming into an online league with no experience, and you're crashing people, the guys are going to be upset with you. These guys take it pretty serious.

We definitely talked about crashing the offensive glass. We felt like that was something that we could beat them on.

We definitely started crashing the boards better in the second half. We knew if we weren't going to get the rebounds now, when are we going to rebound? Rebounds always matter, no matter if it's the beginning or end.

We had a cat killed, our neighbor had a dog killed, my other neighbor had two cats killed, one neighbor had a car come crashing into their fence, and my other neighbor's mailbox was knocked over.

We've got to get more second-chance opportunities. We've tried to stress taking care of the ball, playing together and crashing the boards offensively.

Two uber-trends are crashing into each other: Retail is trying to turn itself into entertainment at the same time that entertainment is trying to turn itself into retail. What's unique about the Internet as a medium is it's an opportunity to blend the retail experience, the entertainment experience, and the discovery of new stuff. It's hard to do that on TV.

Finally getting that call saying I was on the team? Needless to say I was very happy. This is my hometown. Then, the next day, my dreams came crashing down. I understand that this is a business and you can't take stuff personally, but it was a very, very tough time.

We just want to go out there and play as hard as we ever have. We're playing against some big girls, so we've just worked on crashing the boards, keeping them on our backs. It's going to be a good game. Everyone's really excited.

We felt their weakness was outside shooting and one of their strengths was crashing the boards and rebounding, so we decided to play a sagging 2-3 and win or lose with it. Luckily their shots didn't fall and we rebounded very well.

At one point I was having a good run with Will Turner in the #2 car. We were fighting for sixth place and the lead pack was in sight. Knowing we had run quite a while under yellow, and with Will in my mirrors, I was pushing pretty hard. Unfortunately, the way we were crashing the curbs, one of my control arms gave out. When I entered turn one, I just couldn't hang on and Will was able to get by me. I did another lap, but then the car spun going into turn one. It was obvious my day was over so I got the car safely out of the way.

Driver education has not been addressed since the '50s. The main reason teens were crashing was not being addressed, so that is what we're doing.

The woods were wild at nightfall. She heard dim crashing and splashes and the bark of a dog, and through the gaps in the trees was a mottled sky of fading pink and grey discs, microbes moving toward the west. She had almost gotten away but not in time and now leaving wouldn't save her. She lay down on the deck with the woods all around her.

The team was crashing the interior and fighting for every loose ball. Unfortunately, we only converted a handful of those opportunities, and when fouled,we didn't do well from the stripe (12-for-30).

Some witnesses said the driver was going about 90 mph when he lost control of his vehicle, hit the median and flipped the vehicle several times before crashing into a car in the northbound lanes.

Right now there are around 1.3 billion accidents causing 40,000 fatalities each year. That's the equivalent of two jumbo jets full of passengers crashing every day.

Schneider, (Joe) Fallon, (Travis) Russell are very similar. They usually save the first and second shots, so we've got to make sure we're crashing the net and getting those rebound opportunities.

The most logical explanation is that the scale of what we were actually able to observe on TV on Sept. 11 - planes crashing into buildings, buildings collapsing - were so visceral and immediate,

Sounded like a 747 jet crashing here in the valley, all the trees popping and snapping and everything. It was just a horrendous sound, and it never quit.

Companies that have large population of notebook users and are experiencing pain with Windows 95 or 98 crashing are prime candidates for the adoption of Windows 2000, as are companies with a very chaotic environment that want to establish greater degree of lock down and control around the client.

A piece of equipment from the crane either fell, came loose, came crashing down, knocking this employee and another co-worker off of the safety platform that they were on.

Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you *stand, Men of the West!*

That's how we ought to feel when we see an amnesty. People crashing the borders, breaking the law, getting ahead of the line. Telling the guy who waits patiently and plays by the rules that he's a sucker.

You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

They started crashing the boards and we had no one else.

They had everybody crashing the boards. It seemed they were coming in from all angles.

They're a team that does a great job crashing the offensive glass, and you have to block them out. I thought we did a better job of it in the second half.

A ceiling in the ballroom came crashing down.

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

It will be a few weeks yet before balls start crashing into this backstop, but for the Red Sox, baseball and spring training are right around the corner.

It really depends on what degree of accuracy you're looking for. If it's just crashing a plane, that takes no more competency than crashing a bus. There is software available. It comes up and it's a 757 flight deck. A friend of mine pulled it up and it's Chicago's O'Hare Airport and there is the Sears Tower Building. You might be able to practice this on your home PC.

It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.

That's one thing we focused on coming out of the locker room was five guys crashing the boards defensively, and just attack them offensively.

It's big for everybody in the room. With this team, you've got to be cautious of rebounds because they get a lot of offence from crashing the net.

It was nothing major. I crashed on the descent, although it was weird crashing a mile before it happened. I wasn't too happy with that.

They did a good job of crashing the boards, and I think that was the difference in the game. They got a lot of second-chance shots.

The last thing we want to do is slide through the back door -- we'd like to come crashing through the front door,

Their rebounding hurt us a little bit. They have three guys that are taller than our tallest player and they're very physical. They do a good job crashing the boards and we had a hard time keeping them off.

I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity. Every day I'm at work and I look out at the ocean and see the crystal blue waves crashing on the beach, I just look up and thank the universe for putting me here.

I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window... I love doing all of that stuff.

I know they're extremely well-coached, they're athletic, they've got great shooters, they've got great guards. They find openings, they do a lot of ball screening, they penetrate and attack and try to kick to the open guy, and they do a great job crashing the offensive boards because they get you so spread out.

I never heard of anyone crashing a wedding, but the producer of the movie who developed it, he said that when he was younger, he did crash weddings.

I'm terrible at metaphors or analogies. I don't know the difference, actually, ... For me, acting is like your dad teaching you to ride a bicycle. You feel totally vulnerable at first. You imagine yourself getting hurt, and the only thing that prevents you from crashing is your dad is running after you, holding on to the back of your seat. You keep looking over your shoulder at him, and he's going, 'You're doing it, kid.' And then, all of a sudden, you're, like, 'Why are you still holding on, Dad? Let go.'

If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.

In the 1980s prices came crashing down to 10,000 rupees, a plethora of cable networks arrived with channels in local languages -- that's been put to use in the information technology revolution now.

Intensity is the key. They're going to come out hitting. We've got to match their hitting. There are going to be some ugly goals around the net. That's how we have to score ? crashing the net.

I think Allen is remarkable to watch. I can't get over how he keeps throwing his body into bigger guys, crashing to the floor and just getting right back up.

I couldn't think of another way to get her into power where basically her own Cabinet is against her, the whole world is crashing down on her. And I also feel that as an Independent, it would be naive and fairytale-ish to assume right now that an Independent would come to power at the head of a ticket.

I asked Willie about the nightlife, and he said wait until after the game to worry about stuff like that. He said he had a lot of fun there before, but ... his party went crashing down on Super Bowl Sunday. He doesn't want us to go through the same thing, and we're not going to. There's a lot to learn from him.

These Internet stocks are lunacy, ... A lot of individual investors have been lulled into a false sense of security and it's going to come crashing down on them.

Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?