Quotes About Vesuvius

#1. I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

Ali Smith

#2. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Herman Melville

#3. The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.

Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

#4. Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir
or Sewer
Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.

Patrick Dennis

#5. A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

Stephen Greenblatt

#7. Lily might be icy on the outside, but inside she was Vesuvius.

Charlaine Harris

#8. I thought I had found a living volcano, a female Vesuvius. I never thought of a human ship going down in an ocean of despair, in a Sargasso of impotence.

Henry Miller

#9. Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.

James R. Schlesinger

#12. [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

Will Cuppy

#13. If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Deborah Davis

#14. Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!

Carolyn Hart

#15. I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

D.H. Lawrence

#16. There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

William Gibson

#17. The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Agnes F. Vandome

#18. We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.

Kate Clinton

#19. I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.

Viktor Yushchenko