Volcano Quotes

68 quotes by 62 authors

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula… — Alan Alda
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. — Fisher Ames
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer… — Charles Spurgeon
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off… — Alec Baldwin
He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does… — Dan Rather
Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand. — Billy Corgan
I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think… — Rick Sanchez
It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for… — Tom DeLay
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love,… — Amos Oz
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. — Khalil Gibran
Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment.... Moscow seethes and… — Svetlana Alliluyeva
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of… — Adam Zagajewski
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen… — Walter Murch
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But… — Alan Bradley
The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much,… — Jack Handey
The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a… — Gustav Stresemann
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge… — Jon Pareles
If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out. — John Raese

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