Craters Quotes

• Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Wise, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.358

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• But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Twenties, World

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• I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

  Emma Donoghue

  Looks, Holes, More Time

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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• Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Fire, Clay, Fields

  Erich Maria Remarque (1997). “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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• I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

  Agnes Smedley

  Volcanoes, Feels, Living On

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• Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

  Neil Armstrong

  Rocks, Numbers, Long

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• If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

  Iain Banks

  Want, Ifs

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “Against A Dark Background”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt with the tangible.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Real, Light, Earth Life

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• We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

  Steve Squyres

  Hiking, Hills, Climbs

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• I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that you cannot count lunar craters by counting 2, 3, 5, 7.

  Galileo Galilei

  Son, Numbers, Useless

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• No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Moon, Men

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.160, New Directions Publishing

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• Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

  Emma Donoghue

  Goodbye, Doors, Looks

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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• We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater itself is 100 kilometers across. It was so monumental, what happened, that for a very long time the entire atmosphere of our planet was darkened. It's not the lava and the heat per se; it's the obscuring of the entire atmosphere, and it made it very difficult for the human race to survive.

  Werner Herzog

  Real, Years, Race

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Vacation, Two, Numbers

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• We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton.

  Andre Norton

  People, Mets, Hated

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• Say what you mean and mean what you say.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Military, War

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• What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

  Charlie Munger

  Sloth, Unreliability, Answers

  "Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech- May 2007 3/5". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. January 19, 2010.

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• She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

  Anthony Marra

  Sister, Bed, Rooms

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• It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.

  David Levithan

  Song, Dark, Mind

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• Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.

  Amartya Sen

  Moon, Opportunity, Libertarian

  "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

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• They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Eye, Moon, Night

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I saw bubbling lava, and at the same moment I saw a reflection of a certain kind of inner turmoil. Because at the moment I looked into that crater, I slipped, and a large piece of volcanic rock took a hole out of my leg. The scar is still there 20, 30 years later. But it's one of those things that reminds you of the kind of risk or the kind of moment in order to push yourself.

  Julie Taymor

  Reflection, Rocks, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Moon, Potholes

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• Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

  Gayle Forman

  Pain, Loss, Profound

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.111, Penguin

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• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

  Beth Kephart

  Friendship, Meaningful, Children

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