(4 quotes found)
“This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would you do with the evacuation of 3 million people? They're not coming back. There won't be anything to come back to.”
Michael Sheridan
“The pattern is that every 2,000 to 3,000 years, there is a monstrous eruption (of Mount Vesuvius). And it has now been about 2,000 years.”
“Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!”
Herman Melville
“I'll take Vesuvius!”
Enrico Caruso