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“I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.”

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Author:Brian Blessed

“Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to jump in the volcano. Pontiff, don't think of it as endorsing paganism, think of it as supersizing Ash Wednesday.”

Thinking Needs Church Sacrifice Catholic Ashes Pope Volunteer Virgins Catholic Church Paganism Wednesday Volcanoes Endorsing Ash Wednesday

Author:Bill Maher

“You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.”

Ifs Trying Ends Retiring Scholar Volcanoes Burnt Out

Author:Guido Calabresi

“Even though I now know that it's likely the Earth will suffer through mega-volcanoes or meteor strikes that could take out millions or billions of people, I feel less anxious about it because I actually understand what the threats are. There's nothing like researching something exhaustively to make it less terrifying.”

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Author:Annalee Newitz

“Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.”

Said Reality Departure Volcanoes Beirut Typhoons

Author:Yasser Arafat

“We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit.”

“For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a huge number of links to news articles, blog posts, scientific papers, web cams, video and photos. That archive came to the attention of Chatham House, and they then commissioned me to research the way in which the media responded to the ash cloud crisis. I think that's the only time that my degree and my career have fully intersected, and it really was a lovely moment!”

“I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.”

News Connections Volcanoes Daily News

Author:Werner Herzog

“It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"].”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.”

People World Wells Kind War Ends Stories Fall Courses Revolution Myth War Of The Worlds Demon Categories Socialist Adopted Korea North Korea Second World War Dynamics Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.”

Life Is Public Life Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.”

“I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.”

Able Film Areas Program Scientist Let Me University Joints North Korea Korean Subway Kindergarten Volcanoes Cambridge North Korean Cambridge University

Author:Werner Herzog

“Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.”

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Author:Amos Oz

“The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.”

Years Certain Wonderful Danger Training Years Ago Cameras Threatened Wonderful Things Reflecting Discussing Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.”

People Men World Years Made Ends Together Film Interesting He Man Ten Tone Encounters End Of The World Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.”

Divine Population Punishment Locals Demon Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.”

Knows Islands Southern Far Away God Knows Alaska Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.”

Next Couple Volcanoes Naples

Author:Werner Herzog

“We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.”

Kind Courses Wish Fascinating Neighborhood Magnitude Volcanoes Cinematic

Author:Werner Herzog

“When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.”

Needs Breathing Atmosphere Magnificent Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.”

People Danger Handle Curious Permanence Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.”

People Example Strange Chinese Borders Korea North Korea Korean Volcanoes Birthplace

Author:Werner Herzog

“In the communist revolution in North Korea, when they threw out the Japanese occupiers, they claimed the power in the dynamic of this volcano for their revolution, saying that this is at the center of the dynamics of our revolution. Everything that you encounter - you don't have, for example, any advertisements, you don't have anything like that anywhere in the country - if you see anything it would be propaganda, and propaganda always inevitably comes back to the volcano. It's always including the volcano. You see the new leader and standing behind him you see the volcano.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very limited. They don't have any telephone connections, no radio, no TV, no movies, no newspapers - nothing from the outside world. This is very strange and there's the very strict, unifying government that forces you to be in step. You see it in the stadium where the spectators create, by flipping cards, an image of the dear leader, or of the volcano, and it's made of a 100,000 human pictures.”

“The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.”

Visible Evident Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.”

World Mythology Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.”

Thinking Would Be Revolution Connected Myth Exception Sober Korea North Korea Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.”

Creation Mythology Monsters Demon Volcanoes Gods And Monsters

Author:Werner Herzog

“Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would travel there before without a camera and spend half a year on one of those volcanoes and then come back with a camera. You have to have some sort of a clear mindset.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of pens, and gluing it together, and working on a flatbed. It's much, much slower.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.”

Two Order Sea Land Active Magnitude Volcanoes Ocean Exploration

Author:Robert Ballard

“Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.”

People Ifs Want Social Calm Clever Sooner Or Later Ingenious Volcanoes Dormant

Author:Lech Walesa

“We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.”

Knows Hours Growing Approach Nobody Knows Volcanoes Eruption

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.”

Source: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

“Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”

Giving Water Silence Struggle Give Me Iron Volcanoes

Book:Canto General

Source: Canto General

“I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.”

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Author:Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

“Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.”

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Author:Deb Caletti

“I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.”

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Book:Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God.”

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Book:Jesus Out to Sea: Stories

Source: Jesus Out to Sea: Stories

“Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.”

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Author:Alan Alda

“I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.”

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