“A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.”
Ada Louise Huxtable
“The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.”
George Meredith
“This is not an easy business folks, ... Disaster management is not a matter of reading a guide book and then showing up in the middle of a small town that has just been blown off the map by tornadoes.”
Mike Brown
“I hope people don't . . . play politics during this period of time. This is a natural disaster – the likes of which our country may have never seen before – and it's a national emergency. And what we need to do as a nation is come together to solve the problem and not play politics. There'll be ample time for politics.”
Mr Bush
“It's been a slow-motion disaster. It's silent and invisible. People don't imagine this. It hasn't captured our imagination, like the rain forest.”
Boris Worm
“The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster”
Oscar Wilde
“When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself”
Mark Twain
