Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers,… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster… — Katy B Copy Share Image
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Do you know what will be left after you open that box? Even though a lot of disasters came out, because we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“I hope that you are a disaster. I'm sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
“By describing the collapse of the financial system as a natural disaster, rather than as a series of man-made errors, countless pros… — Gregory Zuckerman Copy Share Image
“X" was a woman with whom I had worked at Vogue. Seductive clouds of cigarette smoke and Chanel No. 5 and imminent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know it sounds funny, but every time I have a disaster in the kitchen, it knocks my confidence level a little… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“Earlier in the day, Coast Guard helicopters had arrived and volunteered to spend an hour transporting healthy people to safety (they didn’t… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for… — John Gummer Copy Share Image
The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in… — Billy Tauzin Copy Share Image
And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures… — Cary Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our missile technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of… — Emanuel Ungaro Copy Share Image
I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die!… — James Cameron Copy Share Image