Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There was no other sound in the world like a car crash.

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

Jesse Jackson was involved in a three-car crash this weekend. I understand that no one was hurt, but I understand that two of the women in the other cars are now pregnant.

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right time. Having the right haircut. It's so mad to think that it happened in the way that it happened.

I think they should put pies on the fronts of trains, so that when they hit something it's at least a little bit funny.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr.. you might be a redneck

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

What do--" Tobias's voice. Tobias! "Oh my God. Oh--" "Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. "She's not dead; she's just paralyzed. It'll only last for about a minute. Now get ready to run." I don't understand. How does Peter know? "Let me carry her," Tobias says. "No. You're a better shot than I am. Take my gun. I'll carry her.

I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.

The fact that you fell out of bed makes some people think you had more than one drink before you called for help.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

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

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?