Seveso Quotes & Sayings

We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection. — Donella Meadows

Mockery had gone too far during Hearts. There had been an attempt at strangulation and then her ear had been perforated by a fork. — Michael Ondaatje

People ask me this a lot, what a song's about ... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image. — Tom Verlaine

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot. — Ian McEwan

I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page. — Kevin Crossley-Holland

It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well. — Allen Johnson

Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them. — Andrea Tantaros

Mindfulness isn't something we practice only in the meditation hall; we also practice in the kitchen, in the garden, or when we're on the telephone, driving the car, or washing the dishes. — Thich Nhat Hanh

No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. — Louie Gohmert

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. — Nic Pizzolatto

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. — Lord Byron