#wrecked

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#himself #judge #knowledge #laughter #set

I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire. ↗

— Mike Weir

#another time #asking #behind #cart #counter

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

— Charles Samuel Addams

#train #wrecked #you

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

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

— Kevin Costner

#i #make #sure #want #wreck

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

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#bear #could #desert #desert island #her

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#onto #prejudice #raft #safety #shipwrecked

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#conversation #eight #generate #get #good

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit