Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Sheridan

The pattern is that every 2,000 to 3,000 years, there is a monstrous eruption (of Mount Vesuvius). And it has now been about 2,000 years.

David O. Selznick

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

Tony Saca

We have had an eruption of moderate magnitude, ... there was no lava.

Jon Major

The main pulse of this eruption lasted 10 minutes. In 1980, it lasted nine hours. Short duration, not a lot of ash -- not a big explosion.

Doug Larson

Even before the eruption it was about 45 feet.

Bill Steele

At no time since the pre-1980 buildup to the eruption on May 18 have we seen earthquakes like this,

Peter Gleckler

These results are suggesting that an eruption such as Pinatubo temporarily slows down the warming but it is only temporary, and in the future we can't rely on eruptions as a way of slowing the warming because we have no idea when or where they're going to occur.

Larry Crumpler

If you look at the statistics, just the number of eruptions, there's an eruption every 3,000 to 5,000 years. Since the last one was 3,000 years ago, well ...

Lord Byron

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Holly Black

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

Charles Cotton

The shadows now so long do grow,That brambles like tall cedars show,Molehills seem mountains, and the antAppears a monstrous elephant.

John Knox

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Edward Hoagland

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller....

Edward Hoagland

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

Bear Grylls

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Bear Grylls

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.

David Mitchell

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

James Montier

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

Bill Hicks

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Carl Cohn

The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills,

Kim Basinger

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

Albert Einstein

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

Albert Einstein

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.