Catastrophist School Quotes

#1. He was a good enough sort of cretur, and hadn't no harm in him, and was just a genius, as the papers said, which wasn't his fault.

Mark Twain

#2. I hold a dramatic and romantic concept of life; What doesn't touch my senses means nothing to me

Pablo Neruda

#3. These women with their talk of capricious personal gods, devils and spirits, yet here he was, the greatest devil any of them could imagine, flying easily under their radar.

Arlene Hunt

#4. The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?

Yiyun Li

#5. Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

Timothy Keller

#6. I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

Jack Layton

#7. He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

Roland Barthes

#8. The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

Andrew Lansley

#9. He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.

Erik Larson