Catastroph Quotes

#1. Important lecture!' cried Pnin. 'What to do? It is a catastroph!

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

Karl Kraus

#3. Any project can be estimated accurately (once it's completed).

Peter Taylor

#4. Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Garry Disher

#5. He could be in any mood or any place and, unbidden, it returned.

Colum McCann

#6. I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

Marie Antoinette

#7. I'm like a junky without an addiction.

Ozzy Osbourne

#8. I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

Jesse Schell

#9. It was flawless. It was, in fact, so flawless that it didn't call attention to its own flawlessness. It was perfect.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#10. As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

Kahlil Gibran

#11. I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

Bill Watterson