Avalanche Quotes

#1. Gliomas appeared on the same side of the brain that the phone was predominantly held, further tightening the link. An avalanche of panic ensued in the media.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

Stedman Graham

#3. She would die here and not complain. She would be buried beneath this avalanche of lifelessness.

Marissa Meyer

#4. In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

George Emil Palade

#5. TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.

Justin Sewell

#6. Once I was decapited
a black out in an avalanche
I went from human to animal
please turn me back

Pleasefindthis

#7. Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop.

Jenim Dibie

#8. An avalanche starts with one pebble. A forest with one seed. And it takes one word to make the whole world stop and listen. All you need is the right one.

Jay Kristoff

#9. Sometimes I feel the need of an avalanche within me.

Mark Lawrence

#10. This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

Kenneth Clark

#11. I aint know the police was from Babylon And I aint know Im cold just like an avalanche

Nicki Minaj

#12. Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Euripides

#13. I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

Lance Olsen

#14. It was the sort of noise that makes the silence that comes after it roll forward like a warm avalanche.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.

Tre Cool

#16. I hadn't learned to decipher the mysterious ways of the undermind, How occasionally it erupts into an avalanche of clarity, a sheet of snow shearing off the roof and thundering to the ground, leaving the shingles exposed, knowledge issuing a messenger to announce its arrival.

Kate Bolick

#17. Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia.

E.J. Koh

#18. The few times I said to myself anywhere: 'Now that's a nice spot for a permanent home,' I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far places which I would destroy by the very act of settling in one particular nook of the earth.

Vladimir Nabokov

#19. Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#20. It's true that even though I'm a world unto myself, I've just a speck of dust in the avalanche of events. But nothing will ever force me to think like a speck of dust!

Stanislaw Lem

#21. The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#22. Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Milan Kundera

#23. Love was like an avalanche, with Sephy and I hand-in-hand racing like hell to get out of it's way-only, instead of running away from it, we kept running straight towards it.

Malorie Blackman

#24. Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction," an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity

Clifford A. Pickover

#25. An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off.

Andi James Chamberlain

#26. All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#27. I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

Seamus Heaney

#28. It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay ... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn't- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did.

Jenny Lawson

#29. To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

David Adam

#30. I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.

John Branch

#31. Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?

Charlotte Bronte

#32. God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Charles Stanley

#33. Nature photography ... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.

Robert Adams

#34. He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche.

Colleen Houck

#35. Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

Roseanne Barr

#36. a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away,

Terry Brooks

#37. Avalanche of foreigners. The house was suddenly filled with

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#38. The snowball of selfishness quickly becomes an avalanche.

Angela Lynne Craig

#39. loneliness every day, day in and day out. Eventually, I come to thick snow and need to put on my snow boots so I can drudge through these rough patches. Never, have I felt this avalanche of snowfall on my head as I have tonight. I truly have no one. I am truly am alone.

April Raynne

#40. There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

Leonard Ravenhill

#41. I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

Khaled Hosseini

#42. Some people - and I am one of them - hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

Vladimir Nabokov

#43. All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that?

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#44. I sweat terror, Robyn! I'm scared every single second about every single goddamned thing. I worry obsessively about being buried under an avalanche of fear. Jesus, Robyn, I'm scared like only the truly crazy can be.'
'But that, you dope, is the definition of courage: you go on despite the fear.

Teresa Toten

#45. You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.

Shakira

#46. We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

Dee Hock

#47. You don't understand. My brain consists of large, snowy mountains, and you just caused an avalanche.

David A. Rodriguez

#48. So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

Victor Hugo

#49. Even when bad stuff goes down, the person who is just about buried under an avalanche of sad memories is made of stern stuff. And so, keeps standing.

Sakura Tsukuba

#50. The thunder tiger looked at her like an avalanche looks at a butterfly.

Jay Kristoff

#51. Passionately obsessed by anything we love
an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love ...

Richard Bach

#52. The Avalanche," peacemaker Rachel recites, "is very important. It's a privilege to sing it. It's a celebration of our past." Everybody around the table smiles at her.
"Yeah? Well, I've seen how easily the past can get rewritten." I glare at Mr. Oamaru. "Lyrics change. New authors come along.

Karen Russell

#53. Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.

Paulo Coelho

#54. Trying to make someone love you is like trying to climb uphill during an avalanche.

Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#55. Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

Jodi Picoult

#56. How I Handle Chaos when you awake to find your life in disarray, crumbling apart tumbling like rocks rolling downhill into a rapid avalanche pick up your broken scattered life and put it together again The Nakedness of Arrogance

Jerry T. Johnson

#57. I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

Erik Weihenmayer

#58. Sometimes the most profound experiences of our lives start with an act so simple and careless that we hardly think about it - like tossing a small stone that causes a massive avalanche.

Richard Paul Evans

#59. The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of nonsense.

Douglas Adams

#60. We finally figured out that when you set off a nuke in space, that's when the EMP effect really kicks in, as the energy burst hits the upper atmosphere. It becomes like a pebble triggering an avalanche, the electrical disturbances magnifying. It's in the report. It's called the 'Compton Effect.

William R. Forstchen

#61. I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
I wanted to crawl into a hole at the bottom of a ravine, then be buried under an avalanche, and then die.
I wanted ... to cry.

Cora Carmack

#62. Regret, hurt, bereavement, loss, to permit the flow of even one tear at the upwelling of such feelings was to imperil ancient root systems and retaining walls. Mudslide and black avalanche would result and drown him.

Michael Chabon

#63. He couldn't stay there surrounded by a passel of slaves whose silence made him imagine an avalanche seen from a great distance. No sound, just the knowledge of a roar he could not hear.

Toni Morrison

#64. My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother.

Michelle Phan

#65. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

Jon Ronson

#66. Whatever happens, I'll just keep moving forward. Like an avalanche.

Michelle Phan

#67. I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.

Channing Tatum

#68. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

George Burns

#69. Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

Bob Goff

#70. I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

R.L. LaFevers

#71. Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs.
"What are you, security?" I call back.

Cynthia Hand

#72. Say this is what the pain made of you:
an open, open, open road,
an avalanche of feel it all.

Andrea Gibson

#73. Clapping is easily the best example of self-amplification in the world. It sprouts from a single wham to a wave of sound in no time. As soon as someone clapped on hearing Tulsi's name, an avalanche of applause followed.

Pawan Mishra

#74. I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

Jillian Lauren

#75. When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

Frantz Fanon

#76. The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

Aldous Huxley

#77. The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered and lay still in the silent valley.

Evelyn Waugh

#78. If this was the price of benefits, it was too high. He wanted his friend back, because that was a man worth taking an avalanche for.

S.P. Wayne

#79. The avalanche of prefabbed, precooked, often portable food into every corner of American society represents the most dramatic nutritional shift in human history.

Melanie Warner

#80. Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Franz Wright

#81. What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche?

Leigh Bardugo

#82. Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there's a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it's possible.

Madonna Ciccone

#83. An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.

Anthony Doerr

#84. What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering. (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

Donald E. Westlake

#85. I've killed people before, Razor, and that shit...it changes everything and it doesn't just change you. It's an avalanche to everyone around[-]

Katie McGarry

#86. Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Sathya Sai Baba

#87. Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

Neal A. Maxwell

#88. Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively. I

Jenny Lawson

#89. As if hands were enough
To hold an avalanche off.

Thom Gunn

#90. At fifty-one you had to keep running just to escape the avalanche of your own past.

Stephen King

#91. The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

John Burroughs

#92. Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

Vernor Vinge

#93. You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.

Jean Chatzky

#94. We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.

K.A. Laity

#95. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

John Muir

#96. He asked questions periodically; the moon space elevator in particular drew an avalanche of questions. When I didn't have all the answers I promised I would email him a link to the NASA update page for the project.

Penny Reid

#97. When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

Rafael Nadal

#98. Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There's a rat buried deep in everybody and they'll rat on you if they get pushed far enough.

William Lindsay Gresham

#99. I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche.

Rick Riordan

#100. The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

Dan Jenkins