Quotes tagged ‘disaster’

(26 total)

“I came into your life like a tornado full of sticks and poo.”

“Train wrecks unite.”

— Melissa Blake, Amy B. Harris, Leah Rilke, Sarah Pidgeon, imdb.com

“...when the luck runs out you gotta have a plan...”

— Gideon Raff, Sammy Navon, Alessandro Nivola, imdb.com

“All memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums had been erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster.”

— Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Narrator (voice), Alec Baldwin, imdb.com

“War, earthquake, winds, fire, famine, the plague. Year after year, it's been nothing but disasters. And bandits descend upon us every night. I've seen so many men getting killed like insects, but even I have never heard a story as horrible as this. Yes. So horrible. This time, I may finally lose my…”

— Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Priest, Minoru Chiaki, imdb.com

“We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.”

— William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert, Gene Kranz, Ed Harris, imdb.com

“NASA Director: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever experienced. Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.”

— William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert, Gene Kranz, Ed Harris, imdb.com

“Sally: I had the most terrible vision. Jack Skellington: That's splendid! Sally: No—it was about your Christmas. There was smoke... and fire! Jack Skellington: That's not my Christmas! My Christmas is filled with laughter, and joy...and this: my Sandy Claws outfit. I want you to make it. Sally: Jack…”

— Caroline Thompson, Tim Burton, Jack Skellington (voice), Chris Sarandon, imdb.com

“That’s the world we live in, Monica. Every day a new disaster, when the one thing no one is prepared for will wipe the slate clean. We refuse to imagine our impending extinction, the acceleration of the cataclysms. We’ve thrown science out the window in favor of scandal and opinion and cant and all…”

— Chris Carter, Cigarette Smoking Man, William B. Davis, imdb.com

“This is what we call a total disaster, ladies. I'm going to ask you to smell your armpits. That's the smell of failure and it's stinking up my office. I'm revoking your tanning privileges for the rest of the semester.”

— Ryan Murphy, Sue Sylvester, Jane Lynch, imdb.com

“There are no bad ideas, Lemon. Just good ideas that go horribly bad.”

— Tina Fey, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com

“Quite the situation you've got yourself in here, Derek. I mean, I'm out of commission for a few weeks, and suddenly, there's lizard people, geriatric psychopaths, and you're cooking up werewolves out of every self-esteem deprived adolescent in town.”

— Jeff Davis, Peter Hale, Ian Bohen, imdb.com

“Rebecca: I've had the worst Thanksgiving ever. Greg: Mine was really bad too. It was like Pearl Harbor meets the movie Pearl Harbor.”

— Rene Gube, Greg Serrano, Santino Fontana, imdb.com

“Liz: Have you seen this Tracy thing? Jack: I am aware of it. I have a Google News alert for the phrase ‘tracy jordan ridiculous disaster.’”

— Robert Carlock, Liz Lemon, Tina Fey, imdb.com

“Sensible people take precautions against possible disasters, and of course one man's idea of precaution is another man's silly worry, but whether we're heavy worriers or light worriers, we all have to draw the line somewhere, and say, "This thing happens too rarely to give me concern."”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“Do my countrymen need any assurance that such a catastrophe is not to overtake them while I possess the power to stay it?”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“Why does everyone pray in the aftermath of a disaster? Hasn’t God just proved He doesn’t give a fuck?”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

“I guess I wanna know if we Can take the long way home tonight It's just around the bend”

— Oso Oso, open.spotify.com

“Disaster requires an ability to embrace contradiction in both the minds of those undergoing it and those trying to understand it from afar.”

— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com

“Love fucks up your life.”

— Beck Anderson, amazon.com