Volcanic Quotes

35 quotes by 35 authors

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive.… — Isaac Asimov
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly… — Robert Ballard
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods… — Charles Darwin
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which… — Adam Sedgwick
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the… — Boris Johnson
From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might… — Ian Rankin
The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will… — Esther Hicks
We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as â€œnatural… — David Suzuki
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so… — Marcellin Berthelot
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Icelandâ€”a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earthâ€”can bring to… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? — Wyndham Lewis
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. — Edward Burnett Tylor
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration… — James Dwight Dana
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon… — Stefan Zweig
Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep… — William Regal
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the… — Eberhard Arnold
Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just… — Julian Baggini
Mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet, I send out the scribe, now the vibes gigantic. — Louis Eric Barrier
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far… — Paul Davies

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