Lava Quotes - Page 2

• You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Thinking, Animal

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• I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

  Bella Heathcote

  Lava Lamps, Kind, Fetish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Growing Up, Pride, Men

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• How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.

  Douglas Coupland

  Clouds, Rocks, Water

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Glasses, Mirrors

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• One hand washeth another, both the face.
  [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]

  John Florio

  Hands, Faces

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• Pompeii has nothing to teach us,
  we know crack of volcanic fissure,
  slow flow of terrible lava,
  pressure on heart, lungs, the brain
  about to burst its brittle case
  (what the skull can endure!)

  Hilda Doolittle

  Heart, Skulls, Brain

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.510, New Directions Publishing

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• The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Cutting, Umbria, White

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VII, Section 1,

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• I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Mirrors, Blood

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• Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'

  Jill Scott

  Mom, Powerful, Blessing

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• That's a big lava lamp. Congratulations.

  Mitt Romney

  Congratulations, Awkward, Lava Lamps

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• The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

  Edith Wharton

  Mirrors, August, Cities

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

  William Baziotes

  Fire, Black, Rising

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• As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Madness, Mental Illness

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “A Reflection of the Other Person”, Chatto & Windus

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• You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.

  Werner Herzog

  Pilots, Way, Heat

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

  Werner Herzog

  Iceland, Choices, Feelings

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to evoke more than anything. I remember hearing all the parts of the songs in my mind when I was walking around over the lava fields.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Song, Writing, Feelings

  "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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• We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.

  Peter Sagal

  Color, Lava Lamps, Film

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 25, 2017.

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• My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.

  Mike Huckabee

  Hurt, Jobs, Dad

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.politico.com.

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• I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Running, Dad

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Attention, Littles, Cracks

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• Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.

  Dave Barry

  Teenager, Rain, Sarcasm

  "Whining Down The Country's Roads With Dave Barry And Family". community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. September 1, 1991.

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• When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.

  Gavin de Becker

  Running, Mean, Volcanoes

  Gavin De Becker (1999). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, Doubleday

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• Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava pouring down it?" "Little extra challenge..." - Percy

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Climbing, Challenges

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• Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Fall, Mean

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VIII, Section 4,

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