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Quotes About Chaos

First there was Chaos, the vast immeasurable abyss Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild.
~ John Milton
But now at last the sacred influence Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire As from her outmost works a broken foe With tumult less and with less hostile din
~ John Milton
Haven't seen so much screaming and yelling since I went to a goat-fuck out in South
~ John Sandford
Pilate screamed and pulled away from her and in that sliver of opportunity, Lucas shot him through the bridge of his nose. Then the screaming really got started.
~ John Sandford
How'n the hell they find anything in there?
~ John Sandford
There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire.
~ John Scalzi
Harvey knew what he was and what he was best at: He was a noisy son of a bitch and he was good at making things fall down and go boom.
~ John Scalzi
It's like Wednesday morning at the world's biggest Denny's
~ John Scalzi
Imagine a migraine, on top of a hangover, while sitting in a kindergarten of thirty screaming children, who are all taking turns stabbing you in the eye with an ice pick.
~ John Scalzi
and now she was looking like a grenade went off in a drawer of metallic ribbons.
~ John Scalzi
Welcome to the fucking universe! The universe is a fucked-up place, my friends.
~ John Scalzi
Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.
~ John Scalzi
The party had all the best qualities of a riot and a night on the barricades.
~ John Steinbeck
He was very rich; he bought eggs to throw at a Chinaman. And one of those eggs missed the Chinaman and hit a policeman. So, Danny was in jail.
~ John Steinbeck
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
~ John Updike
It's the truth. It just felt like the whole business was fetching and hauling, all the time trying to hold this mess together she was making all the time.
~ John Updike
Our listeners asked us: What is chaos? We're answering: We do not comment on economic policy.
~ John Vaillant
When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
~ Johnny Depp
Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.
~ Reynolds Price
Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.
~ Greg Bryk
At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.
~ Dean Koontz
I'm sorry that the family I was given has created so much chaos in the family I've chosen.
~ J-Ax
Somehow, since I became a family, every minute in which I am alone and not listening to two kids screaming in stereo feels like a vacation.
~ Sayed Kashua