My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton ran the "Bimbo Eruptions Unit" with a woman named Betsey Wright. And in so doing, she preserved the Democrat Party,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot… — Wesley Snipes 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
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
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name."… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode… — Walter Lippmann 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
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
