#apocalypse

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going. ↗

— Gary Cole

#awe #going #grew #had #i

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#i #imagine #jon #new #new york

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse

For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did not understand, and words which do not exist, to swell a passionate theme, to confound his neighbors in an argument, and for their own sake. He would say, for example, "My farm was the very apocalypse of fertility, but the renter has rested on his oars till it is good for nothing," or "Manifest the bounty to pass the salt shaker in my direction." Something of the Bible, something of an Irish inheritance, something of a liar's anxiety, made of his most ordinary remark a strange and wearisome oratory. ↗

— Glenway Wescott

#bounty #fertility #manifest #oratory #family

I love my virginity to the apocalypse. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#peeps #scott-westerfeld #virginity #love

oh, good, Pestilence is free," said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #pestilence #apocalypse

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#apocalypse

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#boots #cabot #john #meg #pierce

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ending #endless #apocalypse

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#writing #apocalypse