James Van Allen Quotes

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.

I am very aware of the boring life of Sacramento.

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.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

My life is too mundane for anyone to write up.

Tragedy levels the playing field.

Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

Frankly, I am boring. My life is all about the film set, gym classes, and home.

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

I'm boring, man.

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

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

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

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

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

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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.