Quotes About Turbulence

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere.

The evidence all points to the fact that we occupy not a well-mannered clockwork universe, but a destructive, violent, and hostile zoo.

Seems the World goes batshit crazy, every few decades. Just long enough to forget the last time the World went batshit crazy.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

For the party of order, disorder has always had its uses

Berlin was in a state of civil war. Hate exploded suddenly, without warning, out of nowhere; at street corners, in restaurants, cinemas, dance halls, swimming-baths; at midnight, after breakfast, in the middle of the afternoon.

chaos is the condition between order and disorder, the transition between one system and another.

What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.

A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell.

To paint a battle requires those mighty artists with chaos in their brush

In truth, the natural state of humanity was chaos. The Americans had just managed to hold it at bay over most of their short history.

That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Despite the violent turbulence of that year, Anderson, who was born in 1969, imbues his film with a manufactured, blinkered, pastiched nostalgia that the theorist Lauren Berlant defines as "a small-town one that holds close and high a life that never existed, one that provides a screen memory to cover earlier predations of inequality.

It is rescue work, this snatching of vanishing phases of turbulence, disguised in fair words, out of the native obscurity into a light where the struggling forms may be seen, seized upon, endowed with the only possible form of permanence in this world of relative values—the permanence of memory. —JOSEPH CONRAD

A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.

Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.