#catastrophe

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#broke #bucket #buy #catastrophes #go

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#catastrophe #country #heightened #inevitably #national

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe. ↗

— Mario Batali

#any #brilliance #catastrophe #club #eighteen

The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee. ↗

— Leonid Kuchma

#citizen #closed #every #eyes #humanitarian

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#called #catastrophe #day #delta #every

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#catastrophes #fiction #fiction writers #foresee #inevitable

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#clinical #conversations #days #depression #finds

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempt #brought #catastrophes #course #felt

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. ↗

— Lord Acton

#announced #catastrophe #certain #every #feel