Calamity Quotes

I think the curse of Superman stuff is nonsense. I think it`s just nonsense! The reality is if you get any group of people and you statistically say get a group of 100 people, X number is gonna have some sort of calamity in their life `cause that`s what life is.

(On recording "Secret Love" for the movie Calamity Jane (1953)): When I first heard "Secret Love" I almost fainted, it was so beautiful. When we finally got around to doing the pre-recording, Ray Heindorf, the musical director at Warner`s, said he`d get the musicians in about 12:30 so they could rehearse. That morning I did my vocal warm-up, then jumped on my bike and rode over to Warner`s - we lived in Toluca Lake at the time, which was just minutes from the studio. When I got there I sang the song with the orchestra for the first time. When I`d finished, Ray called me into the sound booth, grinning from ear to ear, and said, "That`s it. You`re never going to do it better." That was the first and only take we did.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

When you look at our budget situation today, this is just a fiscal calamity, ... We`re looking at, for the next five years, half a trillion dollars of budget deficits.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

Learn to see in another`s calamity the ills which you should avoid.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one

It reminds one of the Book of Job, where one calamity after another is visited on the church of Phoenix, and it`s a terrible tragedy.

He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light

Public calamity is a mighty leveler