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Quotes About Collision

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
~ Earl Campbell
Usually if I wreck someone, it's on purpose - because I don't wreck a lot of people.
~ Denny Hamlin
In sprint car wrecks, just slam your head against a table a couple times and that's probably what it feels like. You get whiplash, all that stuff.
~ Kyle Larson
Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.
~ Martin Rees
Progress then and now comes from the collision of powerful forces within the hearts of those who strive for it.
~ Sidney Poitier
In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.
~ Simon Blackburn
People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is a crime scene: People eat space with their bodies; they are rain decayers; the wind is slaughtered when they move. A retaliation is probably coming. Should a person cease to move, she would cease to kill the sky, and the world might begin to recover.
~ Ben Marcus
Atoms, by collision, produce vortices, which generate bodies and ultimately worlds.
~ Bertrand Russell
Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the course of passions colliding like freight trains on the same track.
~ Sue Grafton
It was like a stone that strikes against another stone that causes the entire mountain to fall.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
She had been driving all afternoon, her head an echo chamber in which both spoken words and unspoken thoughts steadily collide, one-legged runners on America's highways.
~ Joy Fielding
Les evitaría el final de los de la moto por evidente, pero no, que sufran: se chocaron contra un carro que venía a toda "in the right direction", y acabaron en el tejado del susodicho. De ahí, del techo, de la capota, los tuvo que bajar el agente de la fiscalía que vino a realizar el levantamiento de los cadáveres. ¿Se imaginan un "levantamiento" bajando? Así andamos de mal.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.
~ Harlan Ellison
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
~ William Godwin
Mars-sized object slammed into Earth, blowing out enough material to create the Moon from the debris.
~ Bill Bryson
He spent all of his twenty-three years operating at only one speed and in one direction, furious and forward, convinced that a collision could only improve the ride.
~ Karen Abbott
On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.
~ Annie Jacobsen
When you're not working with guys your own size and everyone is way bigger than you, guys aren't afraid to run right through you - and not even hit you in dangerous places, but just the collision alone - and sometimes it would ring your bell.
~ Sean Waltman
Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible.
~ Michio Kaku
When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of time and memory, called history, the dreams began to come.
~ Steve Erickson
He had thrilled to his own power only in the throes of sex, when he didn't have the presence of mind to know that pleasure wouldn't last forever, and in the flush of freedom, when he was too innocent to know he wasn't free. Now he seized the power that came from that collision of sex with freedom called love.
~ Steve Erickson
Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.
~ Richard Corliss
Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.
~ Annalee Newitz
Los agujeros negros en el centro de las dos galaxias ejecutarán una danza de la muerte antes de colisionar y fusionarse finalmente.
~ Michio Kaku