A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
Jeanne Moreau

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.
Roger Staubach

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
Jack Osbourne

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.
Leslie Easterbrook

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.
Tina Weymouth

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
Wallis Simpson

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!
Patsy Cline

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.
Corey Haim

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.
Susan Smith

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
Gordon Strachan

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

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
Bob Geldof

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Bliss Carman

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
Francis J. Grimke

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
David R. Brower

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?
Ruth Pitter

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant