Quotes About Disaster

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

In 2005, I played Count Fosco in 'The Woman In White' on Broadway. It was a disaster. I was physically run down and terribly homesick and I just knew I had to leave. I lasted three months before the producers released me.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

'60 Minutes' was a disaster for me because it made everybody think that I was the house liberal of CBS, which is the part that I was playing. It was fun for a while.

Dark lipstick on me is both a risk and a disaster.

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house on the land next to me, and there might have been.

My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.

I think that if Britain does decide to leave the E.U., that would be a disaster for the technology sector here and probably also for the broader economy.

I can't cook to save my life. I'm a disaster.

I think for the disaster to work and the drama to work, you really need to feel like you're really in that world.

When I take risks, I win. When I do the safe thing, it's a disaster.

I'm the world's greatest apologist for Brian De Palma but his version of Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia' is a disaster.

To me, even what the glossies would consider a fashion disaster are still self expression.

Do not try to play politics using the health of the public during a disaster.

You know, Kinect... I'll be honest with you. It was a disaster.