Judy Sheindlin Quotes

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.

This was worse than anything I thought I would ever see.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.

(Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?" "You still recognize me with a busted-up face. That's a good sign, right?

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

The storm dropped a house on her head.

...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.