Werner Herzog Quotes

Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.

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"].

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

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

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

Politically, [Latin] America is the same as it is physically: the land of the earthquakes.

A border is not only a separation; it’s a connection.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The 'New York Times' is my homepage because it forces me to go right into the news.

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

The Earth is moving right now.

Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

If it's called THE USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday?