Nina Bawden Quotes

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

There's a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it's kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

What is the distinction between "misfortune" and "calamity"? If Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune; but if someone pulled him out, it would be a calamity.

Anything that has to do with air travel and air tragedy is of interest to me.

Chernobyl has been a negative part of Ukraine's brand. The time has come to change this.

They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.

You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.

The world is on fire.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

It's here somewhere," I assured him. "Please tell me you haven't lost it already." "We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.

Everything went great right up to the explosion.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]

It's the light of the oncoming train.

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.