Crash Tests

Famous quotes containing the words crash and/or tests:

    O ship
    white-sailed of Crete,
    you brought my mistress
    from her quiet palace
    through breaker and crash of surf
    to love-rite of unhappiness!
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)