“It wasn’t a bang or a boom. It was the dampest, most corpulent eruption in the history of terminal flatulence.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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