A Quote by David Frum

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

David Frum

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David Frum
American - Public Servant
Born: June 30, 1960

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

Ted Danson

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Hilary Mantel

Sunrise looks spectacular in the nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.

Mark Shields

Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think it's inevitable. I think it's just human nature.

Steven Wilson

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

Kathy Acker

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

Marilyn French

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

Paul Provenza

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

Zig Ziglar

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

Roger Staubach

There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. But it's not necessarily right for the film — you jump out, you think about the surface, and you don't stay in there with the characters and the story.

Roger Deakins

Football is spectacular and it has to stay spectacular in every sense.

Marco van Basten

Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

Frederick Lenz

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.