Intense Pacific Hurricane

Famous quotes containing the words intense, pacific and/or hurricane:

    How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one’s being alone.... It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)