Man Made Disaster Quotes

#1. People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.

Larry Sabato

#2. We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.

Peter Menzel

#3. I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

Shaquille O'Neal

#4. A good author, Mr. Minke, should be able to provide his readers with some joy, not a false joy, but some faith that life is beautiful. While suffering is man-made, and not some natural disaster, then it can surely be resisted by men. Give hope to your readers, to your fellow countrymen.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#5. I'm pretty sure the past is only good for one thing and that's getting a person where they are at the present.

Susan Donovan

#6. I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

Nalo Hopkinson

#7. The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

Wallace Stevens

#8. Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'

Michael Sheen

#9. She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

George R R Martin

#10. Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear ...

Susan Tedeschi

#11. Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

Rebekah Nathan

#12. The whole damned country was depending on me.

Joe Louis

#13. Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

Omar Khayyam

#14. After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Many LBOs are man-made disasters. When the price paid is excessive, the equity portion of an LBO is really an out-of-the-money call option. Many fiduciaries placed large amounts of the capital under their stewardship into such options in 2006 and 2007.

Seth Klarman

#16. Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

Harvey Penick

#17. When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

Carlton Cuse