Disaster Quotes · Page 61

Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.

— Lucy Punch

There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level…

— Richard Bach

I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I…

— Jay Baruchel

The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence,…

— H. G. Wells

I believe life is destiny, and really the capture the magic of life, and the same for the magic in the disaster.

— Meital Dohan

There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is…

— Bertrand Russell

I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation…

— Beyonce Knowles

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a…

— Barack Obama

Obamacare's a disaster. But the answer is not to simply return to the way things were before. The answer is to repeal…

— Marco Rubio

The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

— Craig Reucassel

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a…

— Gary Numan

Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even…

— Bill Gates

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus,…

— Ernst Fischer

We're not co-sleeping. I'm all for what people want to do in their home, but I need my bed. I'm a terrible…

— Busy Philipps

I'm the world's greatest apologist for Brian De Palma but his version of Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia' is a disaster.

— Mark Fisher

If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we…

— Stephen Hawking

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

— Jill Stein

“When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I've never been able to keep track of an umbrella, but then my dad gave me this fancy umbrella. It was in…

— Cristin Milioti

One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic…

— Jello Biafra

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly…

— Thomas Sowell

I have met so many people who had their life savings wiped out, who lost their homes, who are barely back with…

— Hillary Clinton

[Hillary Clinton] talks about solar panels. We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of…

— Donald Trump

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in…

— Henry Miller