Jenny Downham Quotes

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!

In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.

I did a lot of crazy things so I'm surprised to be alive.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.

I was dying when you came.

There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.