“You never do anything unless it's exactly what you want to do. You never have. You go through life like a natural disaster knocking down everything and everyone in your path.”— Kelly Bishop, Emily Gilmore, netflix.com
“He doesn't have his shit together. If you get the sense that this guy's life is a mess, he probably has a lot higher priorities to deal with than you.”— Anna Breslaw, cosmopolitan.com
“There's value in disaster. All our mistakes burned up. Thank god we can start again.”— Thomas Edison, soundshoremedia.com
“Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed.…”— Hugh Laurie, books.google.com
“The engineer and historian of engineering Henry Petroski presents a very elegant point. Had the Titanic not had that famous accident, as fatal as it was, we would have kept building larger and larger ocean liners and the next disaster would have been even more tragic. So the people who perished were…”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, quotebinding1.com